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Here's some of Colin O'Brien's photographs of travellers' children taken in 1987
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"I came across the travellers parked up around London Fields station and took some Polaroid pictures of the children, which I gave to them as presents"
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"I came across the travellers parked up around London Fields station and took some Polaroid pictures of the children, which I gave to them as presents"
"They in turn showed their parents, who dressed the children up and sent them out to my open air studio to have their pictures taken"
"I went back to London Fields for the next three weeks taking more pictures, but by the fourth week they had moved on"
"I recently got in touch with some of the now grown up children, and some of them still have the original Polaroids I had given them all those years ago"
"The children had led a rough hard life and they were older than their years. They weren’t twee or out to please me, they were just themselves. The most outstanding picture for me is the girl in the woollen dress, which has a somewhat haunting quality to it"
"The children’s parents didn’t really get involved – there are one or two images of adults, but the essay is really all about the children"
Traveller’s Children in London Fields captures the nomadic youth of travellers living in East London in 1987, this incredible book is published by @thegentleauthor
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