slovak paradise
Slovak paradise is a photographic essay about a Gypsy settlement in middle Slovakia, situated on the northern border of Slovak Paradise National Park. With an estimated population of over 700, Letanovský Mlyn lacks electricity, heating, telephones, running water, transportation services, and other basic infrastructure standard of modern European countries. For more than one hundred years a Romany camp has existed at the site of Letanovský Mlyn. Then Czechoslovak president Václav Havel visited the Letanovce Romany settlement in 1990 stating that these living conditions were shameful for the whole republic.
In the next years the inhabitans should move into houses which are being built in the locality of Strelnik, few kilometers from their current location, and the cottages in the settlement will be bulldozed.
