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Flowers in Their Hair 2018

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The Roma girls wear flowers in their hair and red lipstick knowing the photographer is coming to take pictures today. Evangelia holds a smart phone and plays a Roma tune, giggling and wiggling as she dances for the camera. Eletheria is more reserved

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by Beatrice Hamblett

Returning with Photos 2018

176 min read

I always returned with photos taken on my previous visit. My first time back, I wasn’t sure how they would receive them since possessions did not seem to be important to my Roma friends. But they loved the photos, laughing and teasing each other

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by Beatrice Hamblett

First Visit

231 min read

Ask the gypsies if you can take photos. Of the children playing in the truck; by the clothesline. Promise you will bring back photos. They can only say “No,” I think to myself as I turn my Jeep into the dirt road leading to their camp site on

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by Beatrice Hamblett

First Summer with Roma 2018

362 min read

My second day I set up formal portraits but I abandon that method quickly for a more informal street-shooting approach. Each visit began with the offering of a chair and my camera at the ready. Whether my new Roma friends were eating, sleeping,

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by Beatrice Hamblett

First Visit

231 min read

Ask the gypsies if you can take photos. Of the children playing in the truck; by the clothesline. Promise you will bring back photos. They can only say “No,” I think to myself as I turn my Jeep into the dirt road leading to their camp site on

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by Beatrice Hamblett

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