ENTRY DESCRIPTION
We Sinti have only one religion: freedom. In exchange for this we give up wealth, power, science and glory.Our secret lies in enjoying every day the little things that life offers us and that other men do not know how to appreciate: a sunny morning, a bath in the spring, the gaze of someone who loves us. It is difficult to understand these things, Gypsies are born.We like to walk under the stars, ours is a simple, primitive life. It is enough for us to have the sky as a roof, a fire to warm us up and our songs when we are sad.

Vittorio Mayer Pasquale, from "Lacio Drom", gypsy culture magazine, 1973

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 This Gypsy camp is located near the Tirana train station in Albania. The Gypsy population that populates this camp belongs to the "Indi" ethnic group, a migrant ethnic group for which the houses, used for a short period, are often very modest. This photograph is part of a vast work on life in the field. For this I have to thank the whole community of the camp that welcomed me inside the camp, for many days, with so much humanity that allowed me to do even their portraits in the bedroom, the most intimate environment of their home.

AUTHOR
Born in 1945, amateur photo. He started to photographin 1978 developing the interest in social reporting. He has attended numerous masters such as Gianni Berengo Gardin, Mario de Biasi, Fulvio Roiter, Franco Fontana, Romano Cagnononi, Roberto Salbitani, Giovanni Marozzini, George Tadge, Ernesto Bazan, Paul Lowe, Ziyah Gafic, Francesco Cito and Angelo Ferrillo. He has made various reports: circumcision in Muslim culture, life in the Roma camps in Albania, the medicine of a healer in the Cameroon forest, non-time in the prison, the desolation of Pripyat , the pain of Srebrenica.

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