group portrait roma family mother and children

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Group portrait of Roma family, mother and children

Romania, province Dambovita, village Vizuresti: Romanian family. Mother and five children standing hand in hand for their hovel. Another woman breaks branches for the stove. Chopping wood is part of the housework and belongs in the winter to the daily work, life of women. The laundry hangs to dry on the plates, corrugated sheets. A dog is searching on the earth, for food. Many Roma Gypsies living under harsh living conditions, under the poverty line. Nevertheless this Romanians have fun and look laughing straight into the camera.