Carasau, north-west Romania

Crijma Covaci, Tarzan’s wife, in front of her home, not far from the Hungarian border. She is preparing to depart for France. Since the fall of communism and the closure of state farms, an unemployed Roma population try their chances abroad. Sophie Landrin, a French journalist at Le Monde, worked alongside Amsellem for this report. She reminds us that the ‘harsh living conditions in Romania force the Roma into exile’. Like other homes in this village, Crijma and Tarzans’s is made out of terracotta and has neither running water nor electricity (Image: ©Bruno Amsellem/ represented by Signatures photography agency)

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