latcho drom project

 Latcho Drom incorporated into the Romany language is a wish that literally says "Good Road," i.e. 'have a good trip." In French it was correctly translated as "Bonne Route"

My relationship with the gypsy world really began through flamenco in the 90s when I went to the festival in Las Minas in Murcia. There I was able to have close contact with the gypsy community. A couple of years later, I heard of a gypsy family who had been evicted and were living under a bridge on the outskirts of Barcelona. I took my camera and recorded their daily life struggling to keep their dignity in those infrahuman conditions. My work helped to put pressure on the authorities until they were finally given a decent home.Josef Koudelka’s book, Gypsies, has always been an enormous source of inspiration to keep working in the world of the Roma people. 

But what has really got me hooked on this people and their culture is their music and love of travel, and from this comes my latest photographic project, Latcho drom which will be a musical journey tracing the route of the Roma from Spain to Rajasthan throught all the musicians.