Leica M System

“24 x 36” Leica M photography portfolio 70 / 71
TOMASZ TOMASZEWSKI (1953 Warsaw – lives in Warsaw)
From the “Gypsies – different people just like us” series, 2000–2001
The theme is nothing new: Joseph Koudelka, Ljalja Kuznetsova and Gianni Berengo Gardin have already
dealt in detail with the issue of gypsies or, more correctly, Romanies. What sets Tomasz Tomaszewski
apart from those people is that he works in color. And, in his work that began in 2000 – backed by a
commission from “National Geographic” magazine – the photographer’s ambitious aim was nothing less
than to describe and capture the global culture of the Sinti and Romany people. Tomaszewski says “My
aim was to use pictures to tell the story of a stateless people who manage to develop a vital and unique
community wherever they settle.”
Cameras : LEICA M6, LEICA M7/Lenses : LEICA SUMMICRON-M 28mm f/2 ASPH.,
LEICA SUMMILUX-M 35mm f/1.4 ASPH., LEICA APO-SUMMICRON-M 90mm f/2 ASPH.
Courtesy of Tomasz Tomaszewski