Joakim Eskildsen – The Roma Journeys

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© Joakim Eskildsen - Family in Szent Miklos, Haranglab

Today while visiting a friend, he asked if I knew Joakim Eskildsen and I responded sorry I don’t. This proceeded with going to the website and then gawking at the beautiful imagery and both of us being blown away by the work. How did Eskildsen and his impressive body of work of The Roma Journeys slip through my internet “roamings”? Thanks Peter for enlightening my visual library today!

The Roma Journeys took Eskildsen 6 years to produce. Between 2000 and 2006 he and writer Cia Rienne traveled through Hungary, India, Greece, Romania, France, Russia and Finland to document the life of the Roma people. Also considered as gypsies, the Roma people are an ethnic group of Europe displaced across the continent. The photographer/writer team set out to learn more about the people and if possible stayed with families to photograph them.

These images are saturated with colour and with emotion. This remarkable series pulls you into another world, probably one that is far, for most of us, to ever imagine.