Mona Simon Documentary Photographer based in London
Portrait Picture of the Year, PHOTOGRAPHERS GIVING BACK AWARD 2010
Grown up with 13
from The Series 'Between yesterday and tomorrow – Transylvanias traditional Roma'
LUMINITA (left) is 13, her sisters MARIA who is 17 is married since she completed 15 years, now 2 years later she is finally pregnant.
She hopes it will be a boy as this would mean that the family will have someone to inherit the property.
These two girls belong to the cardarari a subgroups of Romani people in Transylvania. They left school after completing the 10.
Now their main occupation is to take care of the family, the house and the family business.
The community traditionally produces handcrafted copper work which they than sell in front of their houses but also on national and international fares
© 2009 Mona Simon
Timeless, Havanna, Cuba 2006 has been shortlisted for the SCREENings Online-Fotografie Wettbwerb *Internet goes Print* 2010
