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"Now available in a new edition, this book is photographer Iain McKELL’s extraordinary and breathtakingly beautiful glimpse into the lives of present-day nomads whose culture is built around ideals of freedom, nature, and simplicity.
Unrelated to the Roma, the new gypsies began in 1986 when a group of Post-Punk Anti-Thatcher protesters headed out of London into the English countryside.
McKELLl followed these New Age Travelers to the West Country and over the years he watched them become a hybrid tribe - the new gypsies - present-day rural anarchists, living in elaborately decorated horse-drawn caravans. Known as 'Horsedrawn,' the new gypsies share a desire for sustainability, a love of self-reliance, and a disdain for the trappings of contemporary life.
For more than a decade McKELL has focused his lens on travellers of all ages: parents, children, couples, and loners.
With sensitivity and honesty he captures a way of life that seems at once romantic, strange, beautiful, and simple. The result is a deeply insightful portrayal of a culture that eschews the traditional creature comforts of urban life in favor of the simplicity and freedom of the natural world." (publisher's note, © Prestel, 2014)
"Now available in a new edition, this book is photographer Iain McKELL’s extraordinary and breathtakingly beautiful glimpse into the lives of present-day nomads whose culture is built around ideals of freedom, nature, and simplicity.
Unrelated to the Roma, the new gypsies began in 1986 when a group of Post-Punk Anti-Thatcher protesters headed out of London into the English countryside.
McKELLl followed these New Age Travelers to the West Country and over the years he watched them become a hybrid tribe - the new gypsies - present-day rural anarchists, living in elaborately decorated horse-drawn caravans. Known as 'Horsedrawn,' the new gypsies share a desire for sustainability, a love of self-reliance, and a disdain for the trappings of contemporary life.
For more than a decade McKELL has focused his lens on travellers of all ages: parents, children, couples, and loners.
With sensitivity and honesty he captures a way of life that seems at once romantic, strange, beautiful, and simple. The result is a deeply insightful portrayal of a culture that eschews the traditional creature comforts of urban life in favor of the simplicity and freedom of the natural world." (publisher's note, © Prestel, 2014)
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Ezmeralda Sanger, Val Williams
- Format
- 2nd printrun, pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 28 x 1,5 cm., 128 pp., 80 color ills., text language: English