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1990-97 Romania, Gypsies { 66 images } Created 3 Nov 2008

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  • MIhai Gheorghe and his family outside their tent and hut home, on the outskirts of the Kalderash Roma camp in Sintesti, near Bucharest.
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  • Roma girls dance at the annual Kalderash Roma festival at Bistrita Monastery. The festival brings Roma families from all over Romania, and acts as an opportunity for the families to find suitable wedding partners for their children.
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  • Kalderash Roma women of Sintesti camp, near Bucharest, sort through scrap metal prior to it being melted into ingots, as part of their family metal business.
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  • Two Kalderash gypsy youths play music on a harmonica and a plastic bottle as part of their celebrations of Romanian Orthodox Easter, the most important date in their calendar, in the Kalderash Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest.
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  • THe Kalderash Roma men of Sintesti camp, near Bucharest, play a game of football during their Romanian Orthodox Easter celebrations. This festival is the most important in their calendar.
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  • THE ANNUAL FOOTBALL GAME DESCENDS INTO ARGUMENT. ROMANIAN ORTHODOX EASTER CELEBRATIONS. SINTESTI, ROMANIA, EASTER 1995. The annual football game descends into argument between the Kalderash Roma men of Sintesti camp, near Bucharest. THe game is poart of their Romanian Orthodox Easter celebrations, the most important in their calendar.
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  • Papusha MIhai in her one room home that she shares with her husband and two children, in the Kalderash Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest, takes a break from her daily chores to watch some television.
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  • Food, cigarettes and alcohol are the main ingredieints of the Romanian Orthodox Easter festivities for the Kalderash Roma of Sintesti. The turkey will be given to a childs godfather as a present, in the Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest.
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  • Kalderash Roma youths of the Sintesti camp, near Bucharest, play music as part of their Romanian Orthodox Easter celebrations, the most important in their calendar.
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  • Kalderash Roma dance at a wedding party in a tent in their camp at Sintesti, near Bucharest. It is common for Roma girls to marry in their early teenage years.
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  • Kalderash Roma men and women of the Sintesti camp, near Bucharest, play and joke with each other during a meal to celebrate Romanian Orthodox Easter, the most important date in their calendar.
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  • Nanica Stanescu, on right of picture, playfully fights with a family member during Romanian Orthodox easter celebrations, in the Kalderash Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest.
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  • The Stanescu family illegally collecting wood from the forest near the Kalderash Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest. If caught taking wood they face a prison sentence and fines.
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  • Zena Stanescu, sits atop her families cart, whilst illegally collecting wood in a forest near the Kalderash Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest.
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  • Kalderash gypsy youths collect dried canes for use as beddig for their horses, near the Kalderash Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest. It is common for the youths of the camps to do chores and work within the camp and not to attend school.
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  • Valentin Dobre, a Romanian employed to work in the metal working business by a Kalderash Roma family of SIntesti camp, near Bucharest.
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  • Smoke from a metal furnace hangs over the Kalderash Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest. The furnace is owned by a family, melting scrap metal into pure ingots for resale.
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  • Kalderash Roma girl in her one room home, in the Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest.
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  • Nicolae Veriga Stanescu works into the evening as children from his family play beside a hut, in the Kalderash Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest.
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  • The Stanescu family give Catalin Stanescu his first bath after his baptism, in the Kalderash Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest. The Roma of Sintesti are Romanian Orthodox in religion but mix and match beliefs with their own customs and traditions.
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  • The Stanescu family household, an elder sleeps whilst children play and draw, in the Kalderash Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest. Most of the extended families all live beside each other in the camp.
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  • Zena Stanescu, bottom right of picture, plays with two friends in the fields behind the Kalderash Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest. Most of the children from the camp do not attend school and have no formal education.
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  • A ROMANIAN EMPLOYED BY THE GYPSIES SITS WAITING FOR SCRAP METAL TO MELT IN A FURNACE. SINTESTI, ROMANIA. NOVEMBER 1996. A Romanian employed by a Kalderash Roma family sits amongst the debris of scrap metal whilst waiting for a furnace to melt other metal, causing all the balck smoke to blow over the Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest.
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  • Puia Stanescu sits his son on top of his Mercedes Benz car, in front of his new home, in the Kalderash camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest. In the foreground lies broken an ornament of a horse, the once favoured method of transport with the Roma community.
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  • Sofia, aged 12, has been married twice and divorced twice has now returned home to live with her parents in the Kalderash Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest. It is normal for the girls of the camp to marry when they are in their early teenage years.
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  • The funeral of Florin Mihai, aged 4, who died of meningitis in the Kalderash Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest. HIs family were poor and could barely afford the funeral. Florin was buried wearing his favourite woollen cap, along with some flowers and a little money. The Romanaina Orthodox priest pours beer over the cofin as he says funeral rites.
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  • Gheorghe Nihai holds a photogrpah of himselfon his wedding day with his wife Bria Stanescu who is seated int he background of the photo. They live in a one room home in the Kalderash Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest.
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  • A young Kalderash Roma child stands amongst the shadows of a tree in the village of Sintesti, near Bucharest.
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  • ZENA STANESCU, ARMS OUTSTRETCHED, PLAYS A BALL GAME CALLED "CASTEL" (CASTLE) WITH FRIENDS.
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  • Liuliu Gogu Mihai tried to kiss Casinca Mihai against her wishes, whilst everyone dances, during the Romanina Orthodox Easter celebrations in the Kalderash Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest. Easter is the most important date in their calendar.
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  • Portocala MIhai, her name Portocala translates as 'orange', sits in front of religious pictures in the living room of her family home, in the Kalderash Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest. The Roma of Sintesti are Romanian Orthodox in religion.
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  • Bratu Mihai and Puia Chivu, wearing cap, watch television in a house in the Kalderash Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest. Many of the young men of the camp do not have employment and make a living helping their families or with a variety of menial work.
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  • PLAYING  THE BALL GAME "CASTEL" (CASTLE). SINTESTI, ROMANIA. MAY 1997. Kalderash Roma women from the camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest, play a ball game called 'Castle' in the fields near their camp, as part of their Romanian Orthodox easter celebrations. Easter is the most important date in their calendar.
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  • Franzola Mihai with brother Ciprian, in the ornately decorated living room of their family home in the Kalderash Roma camp of SIntesti, near Bucharest.
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  • Two Kalderash Roma sit in front of religious icons in their home in the camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest. The Roma of Sintesti are Romanian Orthodox in religion, with Easter being the most important date in their calendar.
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  • Two Kalderash Roma dance during Romanian Orthodox Easter celebrations in the camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest. Easter is the most important date in their calendar, celebrated with feasting and drinking, music and relaxing for one week.
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  • Two Kalderash Roma women in their house, drinking beer and showing off their "ghetto blaster" music system, in the Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest. The Roma have a love of all things "pretty", and , if they can afford it, have richly decorated homes.
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  • Bratu Mihai puts his arm around his friends wife, Zambila Mihai. Bratu Mihai also wears a pager on his belt, even though this does not work, it is worn a sa status symbol. They live in the Kalderash Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest.
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  • In the Kalderash Roma village of Sintesti, near Bucharest, a Roma music band play funeral laments outside the tent in which the body of Talia Mihai lies, she had died of a heart attack a few hours earlier. Her husband Badia walks on the right of the picture, and her grandson Puia collapses with grief in the background. The piece of smouldering wood is burnt outside the tent as tradition.
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  • The body of Talia MIhai lies in a Romanian Orthodox church near the Kalderash Roma camp of SIntesti, near Bucharest. The family of Talia grieve around her coffin. Talia who was very popular in the camp, and mother of the chief of the camp, died of a heart attack.
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  • The funeral cortege of Talia Mihai leaves the Kalderash Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest. Talia, mother of the chief of the camp, was very popular and drew a large funeral cortege including non-Roma from a nearby village.
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  • Gabriela Mihai, the day after the funeral of her 4 year old brother Florin who had died of meningitis, in the Kalderash Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest.
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  • A view of the Kalderash Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest, home to a few hundred metal working Roma.
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  • Children in the Kalderash Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest. The camp is home to a few hundred Roma whose principle manner of employment is metal working.
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  • Simione Mihai peers into a tent in the Romanina Roma camp of Sintesti. Simione does not attend school, prefering to stay in the camp and perform chores for his parents or to play with friends.
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  • Veta Mihai tends to one of her family's horses in the Romanian Roma camp of Sintesti. The camp consists of many families whose predominent occupation is concerned with metal working.
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  • Gheorghe Mihai and his family in their tent cooking and metal working, in the Romanian Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest.
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  • Lidia Mihai, and husband Ilie, laughing at photographs of themselves. The Mihai's are a Kalderash Roma family, making a living from metal working, in the Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest.
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  • Kalderash Roma youths repare a cart they have borrowed without permission in the fields behind the Roma camp of SIntesti, near Bucharest. Most Roma children do not attend school prefering to play in the camp and undertake chores for their families.
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  • Veta Mihai stands beside her parents cart after delivering scrap metal to the furnace her husband is working with. The scrap metal will be melted and turned into ingots of pure metal, which the family will then sell. Metal working is a way of life for ther Kalderash Roma of Sintesti camp, near Bucharest.
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  • Kalderash Roma youths playing in the camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest. Most of the children in the camp do not attend school and have no formal education.
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  • The Stanescu family working in their tent in the Romanian Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest. The Stanescu family make alcohol stills which they then sell at markets.
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  • Kalderash Roma girl Sofia MIhai stands proudly in the living rome of her home, in the Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest.
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  • A Roma musician leaves a party in celebration of Romanian Orthodox Easter, the most important holiday of the year for the Kalderash Roma community of Sintesti, near Bucharest.
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  • Romanian Orthodox Easter celebrations are the most important in the calendar for the Kalderash Roma community of Sintesti, near Bucharest. Zambila Mihai and her brother Puia (hands in pocket) escort a table of food, drink and presents to the home of Puia's grandfather.
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  • Kalderash Roma Papusha MIhai falls asleep with daughter Garoafa, after breast feeding her. The table has the remains of their meal in celebration of Romanian Orthodox Easter, the most important festivity in the calender for the Roma of Sintesti camp, near Bucharest..
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  • Romanian Orthodox Easter celebrations are the most important of the year for the Kalderash Roma of Sintesti camp, near Bucharest. Many pigs get slaughtered to provide food for the festivities..
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  • Romanian Orthodox Easter celebrations are the most important of the year for the Kalderash Roma of Sintesti camp, near Bucharest. Many pigs get slaughtered to provide food for the festivities..
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  • Kalderash Roma bride on the day of her wedding walking in the fields behind the camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest. Most Roma girls get married whilst in their early teenage years.
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  • Papusha Mihai bathes her daughter Garoafa, in the one room that is home for them and her husband, in the Kalderash Roma camp of Sintesti, near Bucharest. Another child watches a Indian Hindi Bollywood movie on a video and understands some of the language, as it is generally held that the Roma people of Europe came from India 500 years ago.
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  • A Kalderash Roma of Sintesti camp, near Bucharest, drags a hot ingot of metal, recently made from melted down scrap metal. Metal working is the main profession for the Roma of Sintesti.
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  • Two Romanian men, employed by the Roma of Sintesti camp, near Bucharest, throw scrap metal into a furnace to burn off impurities and plastics. The molten metal will then be sold as ingots reapign large financial rewards for the Roma family who own the furnace..
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  • KEEPING THE BEERS COLD AT THE ANNUAL KALDERASH FESTIVAL, BISTRITA MONASTERY, COSTESTI, ROMANIA.  SEPTEMBER 1994. Keeping the beers cold at the annual Kalderash Roma festival at Bistrita Monastery, near Costesti. The festival in honour of a religious saint draws Roma families from all over Romania. The families come to show off their finery and to find suitable partners for their children to marry.
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  • Simione MIhai, on right of picture, pretends with a friend to drink alcohol at the annual Kalderash Roma festival, held each September in honour of a religious saint. The festival brings Roma families from all over Romania.
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  • front to back, GETA MIHAI,HER SISTER PAPUSHA MIHAI, SITER IN LAW GARAFA, AND GETAS MOTHER.WAITING AS THEY MAKE SOAP. SINTESTI, ROMANIA. NOVEMBER 1996..©JEREMY SUTTON-HIBBERT 2000..TEL./FAX. +44-141-649-2912..TEL. +44-7831-138817.
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  • Two Kalderash gypsy youths tend to their horses on the approach road to Sintesti gypsy camp, near Bucharest. It is common for the youths in the camp to look after the horses and to tend to other chores.
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