Travellers
Kirstine Fryd
Nov 9 - Dec 5, 2010


Kirstine Fryd has spent the past year documenting Irish Travellers. In March 2009, she knocked on several doors on various settlements in South London. One family opened their door and invited her in. Since then, she has stayed with them on multiple occasions and joined them on many family celebrations, allowing her a glimpse into this elusive yet rich, vibrant and colourful culture.

The photographs in this exhibition explore the joys and challenges of Traveller life even as the familiar world around them continues to change. Poignant moments captured on film offer rare glimpses into Traveller vulnerability and silence.

Irish Travellers have been part of British society for many centuries, but are still a highly excluded minority. They often hide their identity in order to avoid discrimination. The estimated number of Travellers in the UK is 200,000.
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Exhibition
9 Nov - Dec 5, 2010
Launch
9 Nov 2010, 7pm

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About Kirstine Fryd

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London based photographer Kirstine Fryd was born and grew up in Denmark. She received her MA degree in Journalism in 2007 and an MA in photojournalism from London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, in 2009. Over a period of three years she studied photography, film, and visual anthropology in Canada and the United States. She works as a picture editor for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Denmark and was involved in a documentary production in Arctic Canada. In 2009 she exhibited the series Cowgirl Dreaming as part of a collective exhibition called 28 Stories, in which she explored North American identity and cultures.

For more information, please visit her website

Photo credit: Charlie Hatch-Barnwell