The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the World Bank are pleased to present this unique Roma Realities catalog which portrays the lives of Roma communities in Southern Europe, authored by the Swiss Photographer Yves Leresche, with photos taken between 1990 & 2008 in Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania. The photo collection illustrates the lives of Roma communities by evoking the themes of family & traditional ways of living, juxtaposed against the images symbolizing the marginalization of Roma, their joblessness, social exclusion, low health standards, but also coping strategies for survival and Roma aspirations for inclusion into mainstream societies.

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