But with Paddy and Liam I’ve known them since they were born. Possibly they see me as an outsider - I grew up in London - which makes it a little easier. I mainly used one family - a real mother and daughter and some of the siblings - and mixed them with actors and actresses and cast a Traveller actor, Michael Collins, who is well-known in Ireland, to play the uncle. How did you manage to not only gain passage into such a guarded community but convince them to be subjects in highly public photographs?Įver since I first went to Ireland in 1985 I’ve always known Travellers and then later I made a film - Pavee Lackeen (The Traveller Girl) - about a young Traveller girl. I do hair for some Psychics here in New York who refer to themselves as Gypsies or Roma or Travelers. We spent two days making photos of them doing things they would normally do such as training horses, fishing and going to the fair. They had such striking looks and their life was so interesting - they were by now living in a house. When they were about ten I thought it would be great to do a story with them. Marina and I have a daughter Violet and so I would spend some time at the house and would get to see Paddy and Liam and their other younger siblings growing up. I think Liam had just been born and Paddy was born there. Marina let them park up their caravan on her land. And then one day there was a terrible accident at their site - due to living on the side of the road - and Tommy and Mary arrived at Marina’s late one night asking if they could take refuge. Paddy and Liam’s mum and dad, Tommy and Mary, were living on the side of the road in the countryside about 20 miles from Dublin and my former partner, Marina stopped one day to buy a sulky from them. I’m going to be obvious and ask you to give me the low-down on how you met these two boys.
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