Photographing Travellers Communities - Birte Kaufmann
- Noemi Filetti
- 25 ott 2017
- Tempo di lettura: 1 min
In her project 'The Travellers', Birte Kaufmann gives insight into the everyday life of Ireland`s largest minority group.
The travellers live in a kind of parallel world with rules all of its own and traditional gender roles, a world to which outsiders have little access. She travelled to Ireland with a VW bus in order to photograph the travellers the first time in 2011 and she made multiple visits over the course of four years, eventually living with them. She wanted to capture the travellers` way of life and their values in pictures. In doing so, she did not want to romanticize them, but rather show their everyday life. A life where people still hunt rabbits and where horses play a vital role. But it is also a life that contains hardship and boredom from an early age. Since her first encounter with the travellers, she has been in touch with one large family. Over time, she has gained their trust. Consequently, she was allowed to live with them and she and her camera became part of their daily lives.
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