Artur Conka

Husband and Wife with Child, Newport, Wales, 2023

Photographer and film director Artur Conka’s work focuses on the plight of the Roma Gypsies and Travellers in Europe. A Roma person himself, Conka was born in Košice, Slovakia, in the impoverished Roma district Luník IX, and travelled around Europe with his family before eventually settling in England in 1998 when he was eight years old.

Conka feels that it is important to give the Roma a voice, as they have so long been voiceless, without influence or consideration by those in power.

Conka currently works as a documentary photographer. His works are currently on show in Wales at an exhibition called Roma in Newport.