The dairy was once a cornerstone of rural life—a place of early mornings, steady hands, and the quiet rhythm of milk cans and cattle. These small buildings, scattered across the countryside, played an essential role in sustaining communities built around the land.
Photographed across remote farmland and pastoral regions, this collection captures the character of these structures—some still in use, others long abandoned, their timber walls and corrugated iron roofs bearing the wear of time and changing industry.
Many of these dairies, once vital to families and local economies, now stand silent, replaced by larger operations or lost to history. Yet their presence on the landscape remains, markers of a way of life that endures in memory.
Through these images, step into the quiet solitude of these timeworn spaces, where traces of the past still linger in the empty stalls and weathered doorways.
Explore the collection below.
