"I think it's important that multiple stories are told"

All too often in landscape photography, the British countryside is uncritically presented as an unpopulated picture-postcard place. As Joanne Coates recognises, though, it's also somewhere that people live and work - or at least try to: "For me, I feel, there is a very real threat to young low income people from those areas ... in terms of housing shortages, second home owners, wealthy folk moving to the countryside, lack of jobs, schools closing, post office closing, pubs closing etc." That threat informs her work, a sample of which can be found here.