Growing up travelling

The experience I had photographing the grit and beauty, that is the everyday life of an Irish Traveller child, is one that inspires me every day. As I have spent five years visiting these families living in caravans on the side of the roads of Ireland, I’m not just a photographer, I try my best to become a part of these communities. As a mother of two young women, i know how to talk to children and parents. Being a mom greatly benefits my work, it is because this that for the short amount of time I am able to be with them for I see these young kids through their mother’s eyes. I feel this great responsibility as an artist and a woman to show these kids in their own worlds being themselves, without the stigma of stereotypes or prejudices, just beautiful children being children.