Unrelated to the Roma, the new gypsies began in the early 1980s when a group of Post-Punk Anti-Thatcher protestors headed out of London into the English countryside. McKell followed these New Age Travellers to the West Country and over the years watched them become a hybrid tribe - the new gypsies - present-day rural anarchists, living in elaborately decorated horse-drawn caravans. Know as ‘Horsedrawn’, the new gypsies share a desire for sustainability, a love of self-reliance and a disdain for the trappings of contemporary life. For more than a decade McKell has focused his lens on travellers of all ages: parents, children, couples and loners. With sensitivity and honesty he captures a way of life that seems at once romantic, strange, beautiful and simple. The result is a deeply insightful portrayal of a culture that eschews the traditional creature comforts of urban life in favour of the simplicity and freedom of the natural world.