“Ramona and Elvira are like twins with very different characters, two parts of one person. It’s one head, one face, but two different minds. Elvira is a dreamer but Ramona makes dreams come true. Elvira is open to love but Ramona is fighting with love. Ramona thinks Elvira’s crazy and Elvira thinks Ramona’s crazy. I say both of them are crazy. You cannot be two people, you have to be one.�

Elvira and Me is about one young woman’s two lives. Her family in Romania call her Elvira but in England she is known by the name on her passport, Ramona. It is a collaboration, with photography by Ciara Leeming and words by Ramona Constantin. It is a work in progress and part of a larger project on the UK’s new Roma communities.

Interview with Centrepoint Collective about the genesis of Elvira and Me: here

Elvira and Me is available via Blurb as a bilingual (English/Romanian) eBook for £2.49. To preview, click here.

Hard copies of the book are also available to buy. For details please email info@ciaraleeming.co.uk