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Miriana & Kija

Miriana & Kija

This is Miriana and Kija, two sisters who have lived all their lives next to each other, married to brothers. As Kija puts it when we ask her about her identity: “We are so Roma, we are original Rom.”

Unbelievably amazing and resourceful women who have lived all their lives in these very modest clay & wood houses that are slowly falling apart. Four sisters married four brothers and lived next to each other all their lives. Very recently they been connected to the water mains. Now they no longer have to carry the water for a few kilometres every day from the next village, but can access it from the tap outside their house.

Serbia, 2019 near Gadicin Han