Mia, a young Roma girl stands in front of a mermaid painted on the wall of a Roma home, in the old part of the Roma camp of Sintesti, Romania, 2004. ©Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert 2004, all rights reserved. A young married Roma girl, 14 years old Gradina Badea, known to her family as “Taliban” due to her dark skinned looks, stands in the house where she lives with her extended family, in the Roma camp of Sintesti, Romania, 2004 ©Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert 2004, all rights reserved. Portraits from a multi year project, 1990-97 and 2004-06, documenting life in a roma camp in Romania.
Gina, a Roma girl from Baltaeni camp, Romania. The wearing of a headscarf shows that she is married. ©Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert 2004, all rights reserved. Sintesti roma camp, Romania. ©Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert 2004, all rights reserved. —–
From a project in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, photographed for the Open Society Institue, New York, USA. 2000.
Eight years after the country declared its independence, in 1991, from the Soviet Union a statue of Lenin looks over preparations for National Childrens day celebrations in Ala-Too Square, formerly Lenin Square, in the capital city of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. ©Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert 2000, all rights reserved. Uzbeks and Kyrgyz men arrive at the Al-Bukhari Mosque for friday prayers in the southern city of Osh. The city was once one of the great cities of the Silk Road and of Central Asia, and is the second biggest city in the country, situated in the unstable Ferghana valley, Kyrgyzstan. ©Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert 2000, all rights reserved. A family sit by their yurt which they live in during the summer months, on the land which they work, near Lake Issyk-Kul in the Alatau range of the Tian Shan mountains. Near Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan. ©Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert 2000, all rights reserved. —–
From the series documenting Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean, 2001-2002, and 2005-2006.
Jesse Reid, a Canadian campaigner with enviromental protest group Greenpeace, manouvers an inflatable in front of the Japanese whale catcher ship the ‘Kyo Maru No.1’ which is chasing and hunting an Antarctic Minke whale in a bid to hamper its navigation and to postpone the inevitable harpooning and death of the Minke whale. ©Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert 2001, all rights reserved. An Antarctic Minke whale is fired at by the harpoonist onboard the ‘Yushin Maru’, a Japanese whale catcher ship, one of five Japanese ships involved in the annual hunt of Antarctic Minke whales, in the Southern Ocean off of Antarctica. The whale is one of 440 that the whalers will kill in their annual hunt. ©Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert 2001, all rights reserved. The Yushin Maru catcher ship of the Japanese whaling fleet injures a whale with its first harpoon attempt, and takes a further three harpoon shots before finally killing the badly injured fleeing whale. Finally they drowned the mammal beneath the harpooon deck of the ship to kill it. Southern Ocean. ©Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert 2006, all rights reserved. Click here to view more work by Scottish photographer Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert .
