Photography: Fascinating portraits of women from Travelling communities in their homes

Date
18 February 2014

Traditionally, Travelling communities are a self-contained entity utterly unknown to outsiders, as we view them through the highly subjective frame of gossip and TV documentaries like My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding. Not content with the marginalised views perpetuated by the media, photographer Sophie Brocks set about photographing a number of women from Travelling communities within their own homes, allowing them a sense of authorship in the resulting images. She explains that the title of the brilliant series, Good Enough For You “echoes a phrase frequently asked of me by the women when working on the shoots.” The insight into their homes is as instrumental in shaping the identities of the women in Sophie’s photographs as their actual appearances; immaculate, uncluttered and charming, and high communicative in spite of the guarded expressions of the women as they sit for the photographs.

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Sophie Brocks: Good Enough For You?

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Sophie Brocks: Good Enough For You?

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Sophie Brocks: Good Enough For You?

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Sophie Brocks: Good Enough For You?

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Sophie Brocks: Good Enough For You?

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Sophie Brocks: Good Enough For You?

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Sophie Brocks: Good Enough For You?

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Maisie Skidmore

Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.

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