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Several days before DJurdjevdan, Roma traditional slava, children are playing with the lamb in their setlement on New Belgrade.
Young couple with their baby at one room house in Gazella settlement.
Two Roma babies are bundled up in a traditional way, at the home in a Karaburma settlement.
Children are playing on the floor in one of Roma districts in Belgrade. Despite their poor economic situation they often appear to be happy and playful.
A girl is dancing to traditional Roma music at her home. Belvile settlement on New Belgrade.
Girls are dancing for the DJurdjevdan, Roma traditional selebration, in Gazela settlement underneath the Gazela bridge.
Children are playing in the pool in Gazela settlement, Belgrade.
A barefoot girl walking through Belvile settlement in New Belgrade.
Roma girl in the room in Belvile settlement.
Roma boy dressed by his mother in his finest clothes before going to doctor.
Roma girl in the fountain in center of Belgrade.
A wife lighting her housband's cigarette in their shack on Karaburma settlement on suburb of Belgrade.
A slaughtered lamb on the day of Djurdjevdan, Roma religious celebration. Karaburma settlement in Belgrade.
Roma family with their horse in Karaburma settlement in suburb of Belgrade.
Roma children are turning back from the Sava river, During the summer thez spend a lot of time there, washing clothes and having bath.
Sheep in the car ready to be sold in the another Roma settlement, on the day before DJurdjevdan, Roma religious holiday.
Father repare the roof of his house in Gazella settlement.
Roma women work on the family business which is recycling old paper which they collect from around Belgrade.
Mather and son at home in Karaburma settlement.
Empty Roma's house in Gazella settlement.
A family's belongings sit packed outside of their home on the day of resettlement.
At the end of the April in 2009, Roma setlement underneath the Gazella bridge is destroyed by Serbian Government.

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