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Growing Up Travelling: The Inside World of the Irish Traveller Children by Jamie Johnson
NEW YORK, NY
.- American photographer Jamie Johnson has devoted her over 20-year career to photographing children and the process of growing up. In 2014 she was invited to Ireland to document the Irish Travellers, a nomadic, ethnic minority that have lived on the margins of Irish society for centuries. She was introduced to a group of Travellers at the Ballinasloe Horse Fair and Festival, an annual event in County Galway where Travellers from Ireland and Europe come to set up camps, reunite with family and friends, and sell puppies and ponies. The children are left to run footloose and fancy free with dolls, animals, and candy cigarettes. While the Travellers dont usually like outsiders, Johnsons warmth, kindness and show of respect won them over and she was granted full access to photograph their lives and culture.