The Children of Carrowbrowne, an exhibition of portraits by award-winning documentary photographer, Tamara Eckhardt, is now running at Galway City Museum as part of this year’s Arts Festival.

Carrowbrowne Halting Site, which is home to eight Traveller families, is situated on the outskirts of Galway City, next to the city dump. This exhibition offers a glimpse into the children’s daily lives in their home environment.

Berlin-based Tamara Eckhardt, who was born in 1995, works as a portrait and documentary photographer. Her work mostly focuses on  marginalised social groups and minorities – and she is especially interested in documenting adolescence.

Travellers are Ireland’s only indigenous ethnic minority group with a distinct, rich nomadic culture but they also face regular discrimination and marginalisation, so it’s only natural she was drawn to photograph these young people in Carrowbrowne.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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