Belgium The start of the new school year isn't a reality... for every Roma children

August 20, 2008

Comment: The Belgian photographer François Struzik visited earlier this year the activities of Terre des hommes in Romania. He focused on the everyday life of Roma children in remote villages. Last month, the Belgian magazine ‘Le Petit Ligueur’ interviewed the atypical photographer and asked him what leads him to travel around the world with his camera.

“Since I was ten years old, I always have been interested in pictures. Since this very moment I knew that I would become a photographer” he said. The magazine explains how François Struzik aims to show human distress through his pictures. Moreover, his principal theme has always been the individual, whom he tries to place in the centre of every social process. “I’d rather like to show resemblances among people rather than differences and that is the reason why I try to put human feelings in the first place.”

Struzik’s journey to Romania had a thrilling impact on his work, since he found children and families facing high social and economical difficulties. He adds: “*I thought that these conditions of life were over in Europe since the end of World War II”*. Besides Romania, François Struzik has been to Poland, Moldova, Kosovo, India, Pakistan and Sierra Leone.

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