A photo essay on women’s roles as daughter, wife and mother in a traditional gypsy family.

In their culture, marriage comes during adolescence. The wedding is a rite of initiation in which the young girl is deflowered, in the hands of an older gypsy woman, the Ajuntaora, to honour the family by giving her purity: virginity. After this initiation, the young woman joins the clan as a woman and mother-to-be.

Los Salazar is the testimony of the photographer Adriana López Sanfeliu on the incarnation of the gypsy law through the woman, the guarantee of permanence of this culture and race. It is a search for the inner landscape of the gypsy woman beyond her fundamental role in the identity of the group.

First edition: 2022.

Softcover.
60 pages.
160 x 213 mm.

ISBN: 9788412091878