From family life to fairground glamour, across Ireland and the UK, the photographer wanted to show a different side to a group whose way of life is dying out
from her caravan, “you’re gonna get soaked!” He was at the Appleby horse fair in Cumbria to photograph the UK’s Traveller community in June 2020, but wasn’t having much luck in the pouring rain. Over a cup of tea, Corrina Chapman asked if he would take her family’s portrait and then spent the next 10 minutes calling everyone. Parents, uncles, cousins and lots of kids trickled into the caravan until about 12 people were crammed inside.
He juxtaposes the traditions of Traveller life with contemporary fashions: homing in on a pair of Nike trainers dangling from a rider on an Irish cob; and capturing a group of young girls in designer clothes, playfully pouting for the camera outside a Romany Gypsy bowtop caravan.
Wright photographs groups of girls whispering to each other as a rollercoaster spins in the background, and others getting a takeaway at the end of the fair. Some young women in figure-flattering outfits, with heavy makeup and long nail extensions, ride horses bareback. “There was a point where I was like, am I sort of caricaturing here by shooting this?” says Wright. But he wanted to show the pride Travellers have in their presentation. It was almost like: “this is how we dress,” he says.
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