The exhibition, which shows the two countries? ?invisible? Romani, features about a hundred photographs taken by Paulius Normantas, a 63-year-old Lithuanian who has lived in Nyiregyháza since 1983. The show aims to offer non-Romani a closer look at the lives of this minority in many countries.
The show combines Normantas?s images of Romani in northern India with images of Romani in 14 communities in northeastern Hungary, said Virág Erdei, a specialist in the study of the Romani people and a participant in the ?Gypsies in Northern India and Eastern Hungary? project. In addition to the everyday moments captured in the images, Normantas also shows the Romani celebrating, with photographs of a Gypsy wedding and the Gypsy festival of Kisvarda, she added.
The photographs, chosen from several thousand, can be seen until October 11.
Normantas has been on nine expeditions in Asia, including ones that took him through the areas of the former Soviet Union inhabited by Finn-Ugric peoples, as well as along the trails of the Hungarian explorer and linguist Sándor Kőrösi Csoma and the Hungarian archaeologist Aurél Stein. He has published 14 albums and shown his work at more than 50 exhibitions in Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Finland, India and Hungary.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / Photo: MTI
