The Roma Journeys, by Joakim Eskildsen

Joakim Eskildsen is a young Dane who graduated with an MA from Helsinki’s University of Art & Design in 1998; as you will see from his website, he has already completed several bodies of exceptional work and published a number of books, including hand-made artist’s books and short-run editions. His latest, and most ambitious to date is The Roma Journeys. A huge body of work it is too.
Like Josef Koudelka before him (Gypsies, published in 1975), Eskildsen has spent six years following his subject, but unlike Koudelka he has divided his time – and that of his collaborator Cia Rinne – more evenly between the seven countries whose Gypsy travellers feature in the work. Also, most of Eskildesn's work – and the most striking – is in colour. The Roma Journeys is published by Steidl and there is a 10-page portfolio from the work in Ag51. Image © Joakim Eskildsen.