RENé RUIS
Humans and farm animals

The photographer René Ruis portrays Safier mountain farmers at home with their animals, who are anything but house-trained. It is a staged journey back to the time when the connection between humans and cattle was inevitably a little bit more common.

Goat, sow and chicken as roommates: what is posed and strange today was almost a reality in the past. In the Graubünden Safien Valley, for example, one had to endure particularly hard winters and therefore brought livestock out of the barn into the room. In this way, the farming families not only ensured their survival - chickens in particular had to be protected from the cold - but also had an additional source of heat in the house. The cackling WG-Gspänli also thanked them with one or two eggs that they otherwise would not have laid at this time of year.

Author
Freelance Photographer since 2003

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