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Switzerland – Romania – Sweden (World 2016, by Yves Leresche) - Swiss Press Award

Roms, la quête infatigable du paradis
2009-2015

© Yves Leresche
yves.leresche@bluewin.ch

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Roms, la quête infatigable du paradis 2009-2015 © Yves Leresche yves.leresche@bluewin.ch Photo soumise à des droits de reproduction
3rd place
Photo / World
2016

Switzerland – Romania – Sweden

Yves Leresche

In Romania they have four children and a house; but they earn their living as beggars in Lausanne, where they sleep underneath a bridge when it rains. Florin and Rita are Romani (159, 160, 161). Jova belongs to the same ethnic minority. However, she has moved on to Umeå in Sweden, chased off by the many fines (162). Florin, Rita, Jova, and other Romani commuting between Romania and Switzerland were photographed between 2012 and 2015.

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3rd place
Photo / World
2016

Yves Leresche

In Romania they have four children and a house; but they earn their living as beggars in Lausanne, where they sleep underneath a bridge when it rains. Florin and Rita are Romani (159, 160, 161). Jova belongs to the same ethnic minority. However, she has moved on to Umeå in Sweden, chased off by the many fines (162). Florin, Rita, Jova, and other Romani commuting between Romania and Switzerland were photographed between 2012 and 2015.

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