Pillar to Post

As a generational shift pulls this unique culture in different directions, government policy is giving that pull a push, limiting the ease of and right to the nomadic lifestyle of traditional Travellers and Roma Gypsies. Meanwhile, these communities continue to battle the decades-old prejudices of the UK's settled population. Sam Wright’s work holds people and place storytelling at its heart. Travelling to fairs across the UK to meet Travellers and Gypsies of all ages first hand, Sam captures a true portrait of these people - their histories, their futures - as they face a defining time. "Living nomadically has been a way of life since the dawn of the human race and it confuses me that society and government have put so much pressure on the U.K’s last living nomadic people.” Sam said. "I hope this book can be an honest document of Gypsy and Traveller life and that some of its words can speak for the people who keep this heritage alive.”