We are busy. As a photographer, and especially as a woman, Kaufmann was something of a novelty given the strictly defined gender roles of the Traveller community—men tend to the horses and livestock, women to home and family. Girls marry young and only with the blessing of their parents.
She slowly gained their trust to the point that one of the family members—a young mother who took a particular shine to her and was perhaps even amused at her struggle to understand what they were saying—began teaching her Gammon, their unwritten language.
And in turn, understanding how they communicate with each other helped her get past the sense of feeling unwelcome and deepened her appreciation of their differences. They don't really call anyone by name. It's 'the woman over there,' 'the man over there,' 'the child,'" she explains. Kaufmann made multiple visits to the family over the course of four years, eventually living with them.
The men gradually accepted her and allowed her to photograph them hunting and trading horses at a fair. She was able to blend into the background and photograph them as an unobtrusive observer of their everyday lives—lives, she says, that are filled with a lot of idle time.
On the one hand life was so sad and boring because everything their lives were stemming from wasn't there anymore. On the other hand there was this freedom—they live their lives in their own way. And then, she says, she found herself taking no photographs at all. She's here and she's not really photographing anymore. Birte Kaufmann's project on the Travellers is now available as a book. You may also see more of Birte Kaufmann's photographs on her website.
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Today there are between 29, and 40, Travellers in Ireland, representing 0. The researchers did not try to connect the emergence of Travellers with any one historical event. They did not however have to speculate about the genetics including an important analysis of the interrelatedness of Travellers, something the researchers say could have implications for disease mapping within Ireland.
It is common practice for Travellers to marry first and second cousins, leading to a situation where they have some of the highest rates of duplicated DNA in the world. These in turn tend to match up with their social grouping and use of language.
Two other clusters are linked to whether the Traveller speaks the Cant or Gammon dialects of the Traveller language Shelta. This disproves a view held by some that the two groups were genetically related. There is also a lack of documentary evidence that reveals the history of the Irish Traveller population. It is denied as a serious problem but could cause reputational damage. The starting point for reverse maths is a base theory that is strong enough to state the theorems of interest, but not strong enough to prove them.
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John Ward, a Traveller making tinware near Galway, in Photograph: Pat Langan. Ethnic status The findings provide strong evidence that Travellers should receive some form of ethnic status , according to Prof Cavalleri.
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