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  • Jean and her family in the front room. English Romanichels whose family came to the USA at the beginning of the twentieth century. Texas, USA 2006
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  • France's ostentatious interior decorator and landscape architect, self-made man Jacques Garcia in his Norman country retreat 'le Chateau du Champ de la Bataille. He is responsible for the Parisian Ladurée teahouse and Hotel  Costes. His client list includes the Sultan of Brunei. He bought the chateau, one hours drive from Paris, at le Neubourg in Normandie, twenty years ago and faced with one of the great masterpieces of French Architecture, his self appointed task was to make it more sublime. Hardly touching the facade, he re-designed the interiors to be lavish interpretations of Baroque, recalling Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette. The stylish gardens contain Roma style temples, an amphitheatre and fountains.  The chateau, open to the public, attracts 30,000 visitors per year. In 2007, with the addition of  restaurant and hotel rooms, the project will be finished.///Chateau du Champ de la Bataille interior: Jacques Garcia with his 84 year old mother "Jeanne Garcia", with his dog "Leon" and is mother's "Olymph" - Leon's fiancée in the Hunting Lounge "Salon Chasse".
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  • France's ostentatious interior decorator and landscape architect, self-made man Jacques Garcia in his Norman country retreat 'le Chateau du Champ de la Bataille. He is responsible for the Parisian Ladurée teahouse and Hotel  Costes. His client list includes the Sultan of Brunei. He bought the chateau, one hours drive from Paris, at le Neubourg in Normandie, twenty years ago and faced with one of the great masterpieces of French Architecture, his self appointed task was to make it more sublime. Hardly touching the facade, he re-designed the interiors to be lavish interpretations of Baroque, recalling Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette. The stylish gardens contain Roma style temples, an amphitheatre and fountains.  The chateau, open to the public, attracts 30,000 visitors per year. In 2007, with the addition of  restaurant and hotel rooms, the project will be finished.///Chateau du Champ de la Bataille interior:  Jacques Garcia with his dog "Leon" in his private bedroom, on Louis Philippe  XV's four poster bed.
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  • Wolf C Hartwig aged 91, producer of epic films and soft-porn features, with his fourth wife, and actress, Veronique Vendell in their apartment on Avenue de Foch, Paris. Wolf Hartwig was awarded a Bambi Award from German Cinema for his film 'The Iron Cross' which was directed by Sam Peckinpah starring James Coburn with Veronique Vendell. A producer working in exploitation genres, soft porn, sex, lurid, violent and sensational features. Other films he produced include 'Horrors from Spider Island'. 'Lady Hamilton' and 'Virgin of the Seven Seas'.//Veronique Vendell reflected in mirror and with Wolf Hartwig and painting of nude in vestibule
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  • Wolf C Hartwig aged 91, producer of epic films and soft-porn features, with his fourth wife, and actress, Veronique Vendell in their apartment on Avenue de Foch, Paris. Wolf Hartwig was awarded a Bambi Award from German Cinema for his film 'The Iron Cross' which was directed by Sam Peckinpah starring James Coburn with Veronique Vendell. A producer working in exploitation genres, soft porn, sex, lurid, violent and sensational features. Other films he produced include 'Horrors from Spider Island'. 'Lady Hamilton' and 'Virgin of the Seven Seas'.//Wolf Hartwig and his wife Veronique Vendell sitting on sofa, Bambi award on bookshelf with other mementos
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  • Rainstorm and early evening at Buzescu. Sumptuous homes for the Roma weathly. Extravagant decorated roofs, homes built like palaces with several floors and balconies, in all different shapes and colors, copying various architecrtural styles. Buzescu is a home for rich Roma and is well known for its typical Roma Gypsy style architecture. Buzescu lies northwest of Alexandria. Romania..Roma Gypsies left India 1000 years ago. Often nomadic. A collection of tribes with their own languages and culture, pushed by the Ottoman empire towards Europe, used and sold as mercenaries, slaves, prostitutes. They endured 500 years of slavery until mid 19th century. A million were killed in the holocaust. Hundreds of thousands exiled and refugees from kosovo. Many Eastern Europe Roma come to the west seeking a better life. They are shunned, marginalized, excluded. Both indigenous and foriegn Roma, whether European citizens or not, lack the opportunities of others, living on the periphery, in the brunt of racism, often deported back to their countries of origin.
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  • RUBBISH DUMP RECYCLING. South East Asia, Cambodia, Phnom Penh. Smokey Mountain, Steung Mean Chey, is Phnom Penh's municipal rubbish dump. Thousands work there, some 600 minors and 2000 adults, recycling the city's rubbish, dumped there by garbage trucks every day. The dump is notorious as many very young children work there. People eat and sleep overnight in the rubbish and fumes, under plastic tarpaulins or in the open air. They work 24 hours a day, like miners, with headlamps at night, collecting plastic, metals, wood, cloth & paper, which they sort and clean, weigh and sell, to be carried away for recycling. A day's work typically brings less than a dollar per person. One and a half to two dollars per day per family. The overpowering, acrid odour of grey smokey fumes blows across the dump, from which the place gets its name 'Smokey Mountain'. It can be smelt miles away. The shantytowns and squats, the recycling worker's homes butt onto or are inside the dump itself. There is no running water, sanitation and many are ill. Children often work with friends or relatives. Religious and ngo's help some children, but this is often resisted by families who need the extra income they generate.///Working at night, recycling rubbish, in Smokey Mountain. The workers rent lamps and batteries for 1000 Rial (25c $ US)
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  • RUBBISH DUMP RECYCLING. South East Asia, Cambodia, Phnom Penh. Smokey Mountain, Steung Mean Chey, is Phnom Penh's municipal rubbish dump. Thousands work there, some 600 minors and 2000 adults, recycling the city's rubbish, dumped there by garbage trucks every day. The dump is notorious as many very young children work there. People eat and sleep overnight in the rubbish and fumes, under plastic tarpaulins or in the open air. They work 24 hours a day, like miners, with headlamps at night, collecting plastic, metals, wood, cloth & paper, which they sort and clean, weigh and sell, to be carried away for recycling. A day's work typically brings less than a dollar per person. One and a half to two dollars per day per family. The overpowering, acrid odour of grey smokey fumes blows across the dump, from which the place gets its name 'Smokey Mountain'. It can be smelt miles away. The shantytowns and squats, the recycling worker's homes butt onto or are inside the dump itself. There is no running water, sanitation and many are ill. Children often work with friends or relatives. Religious and ngo's help some children, but this is often resisted by families who need the extra income they generate.///Working at night, recycling rubbish, in Smokey Mountain. The workers rent lamps and batteries for 1000 Rial (25c $ US)
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  • RUBBISH DUMP RECYCLING. South East Asia, Cambodia, Phnom Penh. Smokey Mountain, Steung Mean Chey, is Phnom Penh's municipal rubbish dump. Thousands work there, some 600 minors and 2000 adults, recycling the city's rubbish, dumped there by garbage trucks every day. The dump is notorious as many very young children work there. People eat and sleep overnight in the rubbish and fumes, under plastic tarpaulins or in the open air. They work 24 hours a day, like miners, with headlamps at night, collecting plastic, metals, wood, cloth & paper, which they sort and clean, weigh and sell, to be carried away for recycling. A day's work typically brings less than a dollar per person. One and a half to two dollars per day per family. The overpowering, acrid odour of grey smokey fumes blows across the dump, from which the place gets its name 'Smokey Mountain'. It can be smelt miles away. The shantytowns and squats, the recycling worker's homes butt onto or are inside the dump itself. There is no running water, sanitation and many are ill. Children often work with friends or relatives. Religious and ngo's help some children, but this is often resisted by families who need the extra income they generate.///A man washes plastic bags in a water hole in the middle of Smokey Mountain. The clean plastic is sent for recycking.
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  • RUBBISH DUMP RECYCLING. South East Asia, Cambodia, Phnom Penh. Smokey Mountain, Steung Mean Chey, is Phnom Penh's municipal rubbish dump. Thousands work there, some 600 minors and 2000 adults, recycling the city's rubbish, dumped there by garbage trucks every day. The dump is notorious as many very young children work there. People eat and sleep overnight in the rubbish and fumes, under plastic tarpaulins or in the open air. They work 24 hours a day, like miners, with headlamps at night, collecting plastic, metals, wood, cloth & paper, which they sort and clean, weigh and sell, to be carried away for recycling. A day's work typically brings less than a dollar per person. One and a half to two dollars per day per family. The overpowering, acrid odour of grey smokey fumes blows across the dump, from which the place gets its name 'Smokey Mountain'. It can be smelt miles away. The shantytowns and squats, the recycling worker's homes butt onto or are inside the dump itself. There is no running water, sanitation and many are ill. Children often work with friends or relatives. Religious and ngo's help some children, but this is often resisted by families who need the extra income they generate.///Fast-food mobile vendor selling snacks and drinks, as night approaches, on the edge of Smokey Mountain
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  • ROYAL CAMBODIAN RAILWAYS. The journey from Phnom Penh to Battambang is the last working route. A passenger train, operates only at weekends. A Czech made diesel locomotive, leaves the capital Saturday morning, arriving in Battambang 22 hours later in the dead of night, and returns on Sunday. Max speed is about 30kmh, often slower due to the track's terrible condition. Carriages are dilapidated, with holes in the floor and only spaces for windows. Passengers sit or sleep on hardwood bench seats, hammocks, or on the floor of cargo carriages. The drivers, controllers & guards add to their small monthly pay by charging for local passengers and cargo; from motor bikes and local produce to timber loaded aboard at the 30 stations along the route. This together with other trains and farm vehicles further slows the journey. In rural areas, the track is a lifeline, and used for local transport on 'bamboo trains' powered by belt-motors, or pushcarts. Boom towns, with a 'goldrush mentality' near the rapidly depleted rainforest, are a hive of activity, with logging as their resource, where children workers even gamble away their earnings on cardgames. In the city, the railway has a life of its own, where people live and work nearby or on the track itself. Market stalls, restaurants, chairs and tables, are removed only briefly, when the infrequent train passes!///Morm Kong, a 44 year old woman, with her 6 year old son Sor Cheata and daughetr in moonlight
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  • FISHERMEN MEKONG RIVER. South East Asia, Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Mekong River. The Cham fisher people live in various desolated villages along the banks of the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers. The fisher families live like river gypsy nomads, working and living on their boats, sleeping under a sprung bamboo frame, all their worldly goods stored below deck. They live in extended families, with numerous boats, together for safety. Their diet is rice, vegetables and fish. Their sleek wooden boats are powered by petrol outboard motors with batteries or generators to supply lighting at night. Their fishing technique is laying nets twice or three times per day, which are weighted well below the surface, using old paint aerosal canisters as buoyant floaters, hanging just beneath the surface. These particular fisher families, living at the junction of the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers, overlooked by Phnom Penh, sell their catch at the Vietnamese market, on the banks of the river. Their life and fortunes are controlled by the cycle of the river. As the river levels drop, so the quantity of fish decreases, until after the heavy floods of the monsoon they fill the river again. They are poor traditional Muslims, marginalised from mainstream society, living a third world life in the immmediate shadow of the first world. The Cham, originally a people of an ancient kingdom called Champa, are a small and disenfranchised community who were disinherited of their land. They are a socially important ethnic group in Cambodia, numbering close to 300,000. The Cham people, live in some 400 villages across Kampong Chnang and Kampong Cham provinces. Their religion is Muslim and their language belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian family. Their livelihoods are as diverse as rice farming, cattle trading, hunting and fishing.///At night, Sawarias, plays on the deck of her father's boat, the city lights of Phnom Penh glistening in the background
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  • Central America, Honduras, Tegucigalpa. Devastation in the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch. High winds and flooding. Refugees. Street Children roaming the streets, addicted and sniffing glue. Infrastructure destroyed.
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  • TOWNSHIP LIFE, Ivory Coast. American flag  and kids playing football  game. Yopougon, near Abidjan. West Africa. A  huge  sprawling township across the lagoon from the capital. It has a population of over a million. Yopougon has been the site of numerous massacres, a flash point, problems between Muslims and Christians. Residents are often poor and living in shanties.
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  • ROYAL CAMBODIAN RAILWAYS. The journey from Phnom Penh to Battambang is the last working route. A passenger train, operates only at weekends. A Czech made diesel locomotive, leaves the capital Saturday morning, arriving in Battambang 22 hours later in the dead of night, and returns on Sunday. Max speed is about 30kmh, often slower due to the track's terrible condition. Carriages are dilapidated, with holes in the floor and only spaces for windows. Passengers sit or sleep on hardwood bench seats, hammocks, or on the floor of cargo carriages. The drivers, controllers & guards add to their small monthly pay by charging for local passengers and cargo; from motor bikes and local produce to timber loaded aboard at the 30 stations along the route. This together with other trains and farm vehicles further slows the journey. In rural areas, the track is a lifeline, and used for local transport on 'bamboo trains' powered by belt-motors, or pushcarts. Boom towns, with a 'goldrush mentality' near the rapidly depleted rainforest, are a hive of activity, with logging as their resource, where children workers even gamble away their earnings on cardgames. In the city, the railway has a life of its own, where people live and work nearby or on the track itself. Market stalls, restaurants, chairs and tables, are removed only briefly, when the infrequent train passes!///A young boy walks on the tracks from school. Phnom Penh
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  • Kaly's bridesmaids dance to rhumba music, on the morning of her wedding. The train of her dress all but fills the living room of her family's apartment. Montpellier, France 1994
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  • José LaFleur, a Manouche, carries the Gypsy standard into the sea, during the Gypsy pilgrimage of Saintes Maries de la Mer. Camargue, France
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  • Doerr, a Roma violinist holds the hand of his granddaughter, whilst she plays in the surf, during the Gypsy pilgrimage of Saintes Maries de la Mer. Camargue, France
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  • An Orthodox Roma 'pumana' ceremony, takes place in a cemetery, marking the death of one of their family whose funeral was six months before. Belgrade, Serbia January 2005
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  • Roma Gypsies nearby the roadside in parking lot, Rome, Italy
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  • Three Gitan girls have breakfast outside their family's caravan. St Jean du Gard, France summer 1995
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  • Croat Roma brother and sister, asleep in caravan. Their families are economic refugees seeking a better life abroad. Rome, Italy 2001
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  • A Catholic Manouche girl awaits her christening. Beauvais, France 1997
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  • Dukey is dressed up for an Orthodox pumana, a ceremony celebrating the life of one of his family who died, six month after their funeral. Kalderash Roma, whose forefathers travelled to the United States after being liberated from slavery during the mid nineteenth century in Romania. A Dallas hotel, Texas USA 2006
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  • David, his brother and brother-in-law, take their Orthodox Christmas morning meal. in Roma tradition, the women serve the men and sit on a separate table. The family is mixed Muslim and Orthodox, so both chicken as well as the traditional Christmas pig is served. Belgrade, Serbia January 7th 2005
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  • Kai and Katinka Palm, musicians of the group Romales, sitting on the bonnet of their vintage American Edsel. Tempere, Finland 2005
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