In pictures: Child's view of Gypsy life

An exhibition at the Museum of Childhood in east London features photographs taken by Gypsy and Traveller children living on three sites in Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets.

The exhibition is the result of a year-long project run by artists and photographers, Bobby Lloyd and Caroline Christie, from On Site Arts, a non-profit arts organisation working with hard to reach communities in east London.

Workshops were held on three sites with children aged between 3 and 18 who were given cameras to record their lives. "Some of the pictures are very much from their point of view physically," says Bobby Lloyd.

The broader context for the project was to document how regeneration of the area is impacting upon Gypsies' and Travellers' long-established way of life.

The site in Newham has been home to four generations of an English Gypsy family for the past 34 years. They fear being compulsorily re-housed if London wins its bid to host the 2012 Olympics.

The site in Tower Hamlets is unauthorised with families often forced to move on. "Conditions are much harder on the unauthorised site because they've got no statutory water supplies and so on and I think the pictures reflect that," Bobby Lloyd says.

The project was supported by the London Gypsy and Traveller Unit, which works on sites and runs youth groups for Gypsies and Travellers in east London. The exhibition runs from 1 July - 31 October.