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Historically despised the new Gypsies are there by choice, not heritage. Unrelated to the Roma, the movement began in 1986 when a group of Post-Punk Anti-Thatcher protesters headed out of London into the English countryside. McKell followed these New Age Travellers to the West Country and over the years he watched them become a hybrid tribe - the new gypsies - present-day rural anarchists, living the subversive lifestyle in elaborately decorated horse-drawn caravans. Known as 'Horse-drawn', the new gypsies share a desire for sustainability, a love of self-reliance and a disdain for the trappings of contemporary life. For more than a decade McKell has focused his lens on travellers of all ages: parents, children, couples and loners. With sensitivity and honesty he captures a way of life that seems at once romantic, strange, beautiful and simple. The result is a deeply insightful portrayal of a culture that eschews the traditional creature comforts of urban life in favour of the simplicity and freedom of the natural world.

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"""[McKell's] photographs make real and raw the often-romanticized lifestyle of these modern nomads."" --Digital Photography Review"

[McKell's] photographs make real and raw the often-romanticized lifestyle of these modern nomads. --Digital Photography Review

[McKell's] photographs make real and raw the often-romanticized lifestyle of these modern nomads. Digital Photography Review

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Iain McKell is an international photographer whose work has appeared in numerous major publications such as V, Sunday Times, i-D and Italian Vogue.

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