A unique photographic record of a year in the life of an English Country House Estate.

Chris Steele-Perkins' book A Place in the Country documents life at Holkham Hall in Norfolk, a 23,000 acre estate with a history stretching back to the 1700s.
Holkham combines tradition with more contemporary activities such as pop and classical concerts, and businesses such as the rental and sale of holiday caravans. It was this mix of past and present, alongside the fact that the Hall was a lived-in family home, that most interested Steele-Perkins. For him the challenge was to look at the reality of Holkham, and explore where that reality overlapped with the cliche´s we cling to.

A Place in the Country published by Dewi Lewis, November 2014

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