Growing up with his family in Llandysul, Wales, Benson Batty was given an early introduction to living off the land, by the way of cultivating food, homegrown fruit and vegetables. Clifford, E. (2018)

“We weren’t completely self-sufficient, though – so I guess that served as a catalyst to explore what it means to be 100 percent reliant on the land,” he says, describing the origins of his project Losgann, which focuses on three separate self-sustaining communities in Wales. Clifford, E. (2018)

Whilst researching online Batty came across a small woodland community called ‘Tinkers Bubble’ in Yeovil. Unable to find any contact information, he decided to show up unannounced. Unfortunately this experience was short-lived, as the community of “Tinkers Bubble” did not want to be photographed. However, he managed to capture these few images below, which were ‘off the grid’ communities, where he chose to stay within the same area. During an interview for an article he said,

While the first room he stayed in was “pretty much what you’d expect in any house, except that you had to start a fire to warm the room up,” the community itself was completely off-grid with electricity generated through wind, solar and hydro power. “They converted an old washing machine to generate electricity from a nearby stream. That was really cool.” Clifford, E. (2018)