<p>Review\n"Klenz' lens shields us from nothing, stripping away the secrecy to expose the beauty and wonder that has been concealed for too long." --Julie Cantrell, INTO THE FREE\n"Cristina Salvador Klenz's book is a striking example of visual storytelling. It captured my heart from the very first image, lending me entry into an intimate world of the universal human experience, filled with love, sadness, and hope." --Oksana Marafioti, AMERICAN GYPSY\n"Klenz's sensitivity and skills as a professional photojournalist result in intimate photographs documenting the community's daily life; milestones including birth, death, marriage; child-rearing; and extreme poverty set in the suburbs." --Ken Kobre, PHOTOJOURNALISM: THE PROFESSIONALS' APPROACH\nPhotojournalist Cristina Salvador Klenz takes us behind the scenes of an ethnic minority largely unknown and yet routinely reduced to stereotypes by mainstream America.\nSince their exodus from India more than a thousand years ago, the Roma (widely known by the exonym "Gypsies," which is increasingly considered an offensive pejorative) have migrated all over the globe, having survived centuries of discrimination and persecution along their travels.\nKlenz’s work ― the first of its kind ― features various nations of Roma in America, including the Kalderash and Machvaya, whose ancestors were kept as slaves in Eastern Europe for 500 years; the Xoraxay, whose people arrived in California after extended stays in Chile; the Mihais, who immigrated to the United States from Colombia; and the Ludar, who were forbidden from speaking their native tongue while enslaved and therefore had lost the Romani language entirely by the time they encountered Klenz.\nBeginning in 1990, Klenz spent several years with Roma families in California; documenting their lives on black-and-white, 35mm film; and developing the film in her home bathroom-turned-dark room. With a foreword by Ian Hancock, widely considered the world’s preeminent Romani scholar, Hidden provides historical as well as social context for the book’s 120 photographs, all lavishly printed in Italy and published by Brown Paper Press.\nGiven their widely divergent paths to the United States, many Romani-American nations today have little social contact with each other, but the groups have been brought together in this rare, intimate collection of photographs so that readers may gain a greater understanding of and appreciation for the history, celebrations, and struggles that bind Romanies together.</p>

Hidden: Life with California's Roma Families

Arts & Photography

Klenz, Cristina Salvador

Photography & Video

Brown Paper Press

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Hidden: Life with California's Roma Families