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These pages form the basis of a layout for a proposed book 'Satra - The Gypsies of Sintesti'. The work documents the changes over the past two decades for the Roma gypsies of Sintesti camp, near Bucharest, Romania. Between 1990 and 1997 I visited Sintesti frequently, building up a lasting friendship with the camp inhabitants, who in turn let me document and participate in their lives, traditions and pastimes. The work, in 35mm reportage and medium format portraiture, became a record of the years when the camp and it's metal worker inhabitants were moving away from the poverty of the Communist era, and moving towards embracing the West and the material goods and business opportunities it offered. In 2004-2006 I returned to the camp, to renew friendships and to witness the large changes that had taken place. Humble homes had become fantasy mansions, built not with architectural plans but with daydreams. Horses and carts had been replaced by Mercedes Benz cars. The Roma had progressed from making pots and pans, to dealing in scrap metal on a large scale. Money was being made, and wealth was being spent in garish fashion. But beneath the surface of change the old ways still existed. Women were still denied an education, knowing only how to clean around the newly bought computers but not yet knowing how to use them. My proposed book documents in images of daily life and portraits, in black and white and colour, a period of rapid change in this one Roma camp.