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Sweetmeat & Sourbread: a Traveller Childhood

A series born out of loss of words to describe an Irish Traveller's childhood. Poetic lightness meshed with attitude, create true melancholy. Disheveled freckled faces, in ill-fitted hand-me-downs. Little lips full of words too big for them. There is a beautiful sadness, but joy and love too.

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World Photo Annual

2024

People's Vote Award

Photojournalism

Professional

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Photojournalism

Professional

Sweetmeat & Sourbread: a Traveller Childhood

A series born out of loss of words to describe an Irish Traveller's childhood. Poetic lightness meshed with attitude, create true melancholy. Disheveled freckled faces, in ill-fitted hand-me-downs. Little lips full of words too big for them. There is a beautiful sadness, but joy and love too.

About Artist

Helene McGuire

Helene McGuire. 47, is a self-taught award-winning French Photographer and writer living with her husband, three children and two dogs in New Jersey, USA. Leaving behind a career in International Law and Emergency Management, she returned to her artistic family trade. Her main focus of imaging is set in studio portraits, street photography and wild horses. The Irish Travellers’ community - with their close relationship to horses - offered a rare opportunity to work on all three. An avid world traveler, Helene sees encountering various cultures, traditions and communities as a lifelong education, a constant horizon broadener, and a chance to enrich her library of storytelling whether it translates into images or words.

Helene McGuire

Photographic Areas of Focus

Fine Art, Portrait, Street

Location

United States of America

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