LAMANI TRIBE India 2005

A fading tradition of elaborate layers of hand-made dresses, tattoo’s, as painstaken hair-do’s and heavy silver jewellery. Powerful, upright, almost fierce in emittance: These gypsy women are the ones who fight for the survival of family – take care of the finances, raise the children, cook, do the laundry, clean, besides working in the fields as farm hands or at road construction. Girls starting to getting married at the age of twelve and become mothers. Education is poor over 80% are illiterate. But despite their poverty and despair, one meets them as demanding and strong, upright and authentic, straight forward and powerful.

The pictures were taken in small remote villages of southern India, where they live in mud huts, or rudimentary brick houses.

 

Editions prints are available in various sizes. For further inquiry please contact the studio or Robert Morat Gallery in Berlin.

Financed with the kind support of the Kulturstiftung VG Bild/Kunst
LAMANI TRIBE India 2005

A fading tradition of elaborate layers of hand-made dresses, tattoo’s, as painstaken hair-do’s and heavy silver jewellery. Powerful, upright, almost fierce in emittance: These gypsy women are the ones who fight for the survival of family – take care of the finances, raise the children, cook, do the laundry, clean, besides working in the fields as farm hands or at road construction. Girls starting to getting married at the age of twelve and become mothers. Education is poor over 80% are illiterate. But despite their poverty and despair, one meets them as demanding and strong, upright and authentic, straight forward and powerful.

The pictures were taken in small remote villages of southern India, where they live in mud huts, or rudimentary brick houses.

 

Editions prints are available in various sizes. For further inquiry please contact the studio or Robert Morat Gallery in Berlin.

Financed with the kind support of the Kulturstiftung VG Bild/Kunst