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Gypsy Hill (Series)
DESCRIPTION
It has been more than 20 years since I left the East-Hungarian gypsy settlement where I grew up. Poverty can be harsh but living as a Roma in rural Hungary is even harsher. My father and my siblings were not so lucky as me and they could not escape fate. They have tried to have a better life but the gravity of the gypsy hill was always stronger. Hundreds of thousands of Roma in Hungary are struggling with the gravity of poverty and discrimination.
AUTHOR
Béla Váradi - photographer, former journalist, living in London, UK. He has to leave his decade long career in journalism in Hungary after the far-right government made it almost impossible to work as an independent journalist. In the last 8 years he turned his attention to photography and now works for studios as a fashion photographer.
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