Always when I'm in Belgrade I'm puzzled by my reaction to the romas on the streets. Many romas live in Belgrade, you see them begging on the street, searching through the waste for cardboard and other recyclable stuff but you also pass the roma slums in novi Belgrade. I'm always upset by the poverty they live in, fascinated by the way they look but unfortunately most of all I'm full of mistrust. I'm grown up with a liberal education my parents used to travel a lot and often took me along. On our travels through spain and portugal but also later in Ireland I  came across many romas and never been deprived of something or threatened by any roma. The mistrust against roma people seems to be enrooted deep in our society.

I came across a very nice book on the roma people. Roma Realities – Decade 2005-2015, a new book from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the World Bank, uses photographs and interviews with Roma experts to examine the results and ongoing challenges of the Decade.

A book about the results and ongoing challenges of the Decade of Roma Inclusion, combines documentary photography and interviews with Roma experts from South Eastern Europe. Produced by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the World Bank, Roma Realities aims to reanimate the debate on Roma integration. The book is addressed to all those who are engaged in improving the access of Roma to quality education, health, housing and employment.
The book has been published by infolio.

The Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005–2015 is an unprecedented political commitment by European governments to improve the socio-economic status and social inclusion of Roma. The Decade is an international initiative that brings together governments, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, as well as Romani civil society, to accelerate progress toward improving the welfare of Roma and to review such progress in a transparent and quantifiable way. The Decade focuses on the priority areas of education, employment, health, and housing, and commits governments to take into account the other core issues of poverty, discrimination, and gender mainstreaming.
The photographs in the book are taken by Yves Leresche a swiss photographer who s spent month with the roma people.
In 2003, he already published a book with his works on the Rroms and exhibits the project at the Musée de l'Elysée, the photo museum in Lausanne. The final conclusion of his documentary on the Rroms obtains several prizes; Grand Prix of the Festival de Honfleur in 98, Festival de Biarritz in 03, in France, and his book (Benteli & Infolio) is qualified in 03 as being one of the most beautiful books of the year, in Switzerland.

I strongly recommend to scroll through this page where you can look at Yves Leresches roma pictures. Some pretty outstanding pictures, arranged by country and year.