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Roma in Svinia

Photo essay in progress with the Roma in Svinia.

I am regularly traveling from Munich, Germany, to Svinia trying to capture in writing and photography what the Residents choose to show me.



Svinia is a village in eastern Slovakia consisting of two settlements of almost similar size, one inhabited by Romani. Founded in the nineteenth century by a handful migrants, the Roma population has grown over the decades to become one of the largest
settlements of rural Roma in the entire district. Set in the centre of Europe the Roma part of Svinia is haunted by unemployment, exploitation, violence, substance abuse, and resignation