THE STOPPING PLACES - Damian Le Bas
Damian Le Bas grew up surrounded by Gypsy
history, but his own experience of life on the road was limited to Ford
Transit journeys from West Sussex to Hampshire to sell flowers.
In
a bid to better understand his Gypsy heritage, the history of the
Britain’s Romanies and the rhythms of their life today, Damian sets out
on a journey to discover the atchin tans, or stopping places –
the old encampment sites known only to Travellers. Through winter frosts
and summer dawns, from horse fairs to Gypsy churches, neon-lit lay-bys
to fern-covered banks, Damian lives on the road, somewhere between the
romanticised Gypsies of old, and their much-maligned descendants of
today.
The jacket features a beloved charm of Romanies; the upturned horseshoe, while the endpapers play on their fondness for all things black and white, such as the piebald cob horse and wagtail bird
