Biography
UK based collaborative duo, Tina Carr (b. 1950) and Annemarie Schöne (b. 1947) have been working together for 30 years on many diverse projects combining both photography and video. Through longstanding collaborations, Carr and Schöne work with marginalized and disenfranchised communities to project a positive image that challenges negative attitudes and stereotypical views.
Carr&Schöne’s work is held in public collections including the V&A, London, The Photographer’s Gallery, London; The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth; Deutsches Bergbaumuseum, Bochum, Germany; The Science Museum, London and Northumberland County Archives.
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The Gypsy Traveller Landscape
Bobbin Mill is the site of a post war social experiment where attempts were made to assimilate
several Scottish Gypsy Traveller families itinerant in the Highlands. They were settled in Nissan huts until
eventually, they were provided with the second hand chalets that they presently enjoy. Highly educated, the
McPhees fought to have their ethnicity recognised by the Scottish Parliament.
Two sets of
photographs shows the places the families used before they were forced to settle juxtaposed against the
aftermath and devastation of the Dale Farm eviction. Not only was Dale farm levelled but also it was also
'bunded' to ensure that the families would never be able to move back on. Deep trenches were excavated, the
services were removed and the whole site left contaminated with oil and asbestos.
Twenty families with young children remain on the roadside with nowhere else to go.
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The River is My Looking Glass
Gypsies and Travellers in the UK are equally vilified. This has been shockingly demonstrated by
the battle for Dale Farm in Essex and the subsequent brutal eviction of the Irish Travellers to whom it had
been home for 10 years. Indeed for 20 extended families it still is home - at least the road beside it is.
With only one standpipe for water and no sanitation at all, these families hold fast to the contaminated
remains of their homes because they have nowhere else to go.
No one wants a Gypsy site next door
to them, and so it goes on. The Gypsies and Travellers are confined to existing overcrowded pitches and
although government has allocated money for the purpose, councils are reluctant to take it up because the
provision of new or transit sites is not going to win them any votes in the forthcoming election.
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Once We Were Birds: the Roma in Hungary
The Roma are the largest stateless minority in Europe, surviving not only the Holocaust, but also
countless pogroms against them in every country in the world for two thousand years. The hostility towards
them has not ceased, if anything it is getting worse due to the rise of right wing extremism throughout
Europe. In Hungary they have been shot and their habitations bombed with Molotov cocktails.
The
Roma inhabit the fringes of society - where the tarmac ends the Roma settlement begins; without running
water, sanitation, jobs and often without food. Life is hard and often depends on payday lenders, who, if
the debt cannot be repaid in money will take a child instead to be trafficked and brutally exploited in
return.
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