Koudelka: Gypsies - Tapa dura

Rarely has a body of work been so deserving of two completely different editions. "Time"

Mr. Koudelka's stark images depict the poverty and clannishness of Gypsy life, but unlike many documentary photographers, he does not present their situation as a social problem that can somehow be fixed. Instead, he shows the Gypsies as perpetual outsiders, and their life as a primal mix of glee and wonder, sorrow and mystery. "The New York Times"

Gives a palpable sense of a people apart, unto themselves, dislocated from contemporary society and even time. "Huffington Post"

Koudelka brings to life the even older world of the Roma gypsies that he encountered in his travels in the late 1960s and early 1970s in images that resonate with mystery and ritual, romance and hardship. "The Guardian""

Rarely has a body of work been so deserving of two completely different editions. Time
Mr. Koudelka's stark images depict the poverty and clannishness of Gypsy life, but unlike many documentary photographers, he does not present their situation as a social problem that can somehow be fixed. Instead, he shows the Gypsies as perpetual outsiders, and their life as a primal mix of glee and wonder, sorrow and mystery. The New York Times
Gives a palpable sense of a people apart, unto themselves, dislocated from contemporary society and even time. Huffington Post
Koudelka brings to life the even older world of the Roma gypsies that he encountered in his travels in the late 1960s and early 1970s in images that resonate with mystery and ritual, romance and hardship. The Guardian"