Pavee Pictures
Derek Speirs

This publication gives an account of the work of Pavee Point in Traveller communities development and features the evocative and empowering photographs of Derek Speirs.

Derek Speirs is a working photo-journalist, whose images are used constantly in the press in Ireland and abroad. His photographs are the products of a clear decision which Derek made early in his practice about the kind of photographer he could be as a result of his understanding of the medium and its context. Over the past thirty years a variety of independent local and regional Traveller initiatives and national Traveller organisations have used community work approaches and methods in their work for justice, equality ad human rights with Travellers. ¹

Dublin Travellers Education & Development Group now also known as Pavee Point, their mission is to contribute to improvement in the quality of life, living circumstances, status and participation of Travellers & Roma through working innovatively for social justice, greater solidarity, development, equality and human rights. ²