Comments on: Travellers’ Children in London Fields

By: Debra. E. Sewell

Debra. E. Sewell — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 18:18:41 +0000

my heart breaks for those children. Adult expressions on kids. Esp the girls. I feel they have been used in bad ways by men already in their young lives. Its in their faces. I wonder where they are.

By: Helen

Helen — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 16:19:57 +0000

Hi sorry I sent a comment I never checked the spelling I was around when these Photos got took the 3rd one down is my Cousin Margaret I remember the man coming out and wanted to take pictures of us I’ve got 1 here he took also we were staying in kings cross London at time good old days

By: Helen

Helen — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 16:08:15 +0000

Hi I’m related the people in these photos also I was they when these pictures got took Ive also got a photo someone send me I can’t really remember what age I think I was 7 year old I’m Ute it was kings cross London I really those time

By: lisa

lisa — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 01:23:39 +0000

i am related by marraige to a lot of the children in these photos ,, a lot of them are still living in and around london on gypsy sites all married with children of there own

By: R

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:39:55 +0000

Hi Colin,
What great work. The pictures are beautiful. I agree with Paul about the little girl in that woolen outfit appearing in the other pictures with another outfit on. It looks like her – and I’m hoping it’s her, because she’s smiling in some of the others. Phew.
I wish the exhibition were coming to Montreal as there is a large Irish community here.
Thanks,
R

By: Nic Millington

Nic Millington — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:39:35 +0000

These are wonderful pictures that speak powerfully about the lives of all children as well as more specifically Traveller children. I won’t be able to get to the exhibition, but what chance of it touring?

By: Virginia

Virginia — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:39:26 +0000

He has definitely captured the spirits of the children. Is spent time in the Finsbury Park section London in the 1970′s ( being a yank was my claim to fame) and was fortunate enough to snap photos of the neighborhood children What separates my shots from these is the relative lack of smiles or clowning around in these children. Could it be because they are in a strange city?

By: Laura Passey

Laura Passey — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:39:13 +0000

There is such a rawness to these pictures. Fascinating.

By: M

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:38:51 +0000

Lovely pictures, fantastic!!!

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:38:37 +0000

Dear Colin,
these are wonderfully poignant photos’ and the first portrait of the girl in the woolen dress is indeed resonant and haunting but doesn’t she appear in a happier guise in the 2nd, 4th, 10th and 14th photos’ down? I think it’s her, and if it is, it makes the first photo all the more remarkable.
I am really looking forward to the exhibition and disappointed that I’ll be out of town on the 29th.
Kind regards
Paul