“This project documents twenty years of work photographing Europe’s Rom population. It began in France in the early ‘90’s when I lived with the gypsy and Manouche populations in Arles and Ales, as well as during their annual pilgrimage to Sainte-Marie de la Mer. I then went to the Balkans during the Bosnian war and followed a family of British Roms traveling by horse and carriage. In 1999, I was back in Kosovo where I observed the ethnic cleansing in Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Italie. Since 2000, I have been studying Spanish gypsies and the drug problems in Almeria. I covered Roms in Romania and Serbia, and was lucky to have met with those living in Finland, considered the most strict and traditional. I have worked with both families and diplomats working with the Roms, from Italy to Texas. In 20 years, I have never missed the pilgrimage to Sainte-Marie de la Mer. Some of the children I once photographed have since become parents, and I am their godfather…”
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