The work has developed from collaboration between a group of teenage Roma women, led by photographer Manuela Zanotti and Jacob Garber of The Children´s Society. Previous representations of Roma people show them as either romantic and free or living in desperate poverty. The large format and digital images taken by the group break from these stereotypes. The young women document a crucial moment in their lives as they undergo many complex transitions: from girlhood into womanhood, from Eastern European segregation to attempted British multiculturalism and from passive outsiders to active participants in society.

“... and in the modern world, when reality is not recoded it does not exist.”

Come and discover the reality of Roma London.