Stefan Bladh: The Family [special ed]

You´ll find his pictures full of despair and tenderness, focusing on the humanity we share. He knows that photography is not all about photography. In the end, it is the encounter that matters the most.” - Anders Petersen Photographer Stefan Bladh have been following a Turkish nomadic family for seven years. He is invited as their friend and lives close together with them from time to time. He finds them through their mobile phone, in various places throughout the country; living in cramped conditions without heat, electricity, clean water or proper sewer systems, in abandoned house skeletons and under motorway bridges. Difficulties with money, health care and welfare rights take turns playing havoc on their lives, and every day is a struggle to keep the whole of the large family alive.