ROMA
grow into teenagers who already marry at this age and have their own children and it fills my heart with joy when the children of a village - seeing my car coming along the main street - start running home to tell (or yell) the news.
What keeps me going to meet Roma-People again and again - besides taking photographs and the personal warmth in some of these friendships - is to get in contact with their - to me - pretty strange culture that I probably never will understand in depth. But this diversity attracts me in a virtually 'magical' way. Besides that I have a big, big respect for the fortitude with which many of the Roma face their outer poverty and their being pushed to the margins of our society.
Of course I don't like the occasional attempts to steal from me but I can understand them and ask myself if I - being in their situation - wouldn't develop much greater criminal energies.
Okt. 2011