Pomak Infant

RIBNOVO, BULGARIA - JANUARY 10: Women wearing traditional Pomak daily dress stop to touch an infant riding on the back of its mother on market day on January 10, 2014 in Ribnovo, Bulgaria. According to locals jobs were common in the region until the financial crisis of 2008; today only the local tobacco and textile industries offer much hope for employment. In the winter months Ribnovo, with its population of approximately 3,000, is bustling, though with jobs in the region so scarce the vast majority of able-bodied villagers migrate abroad starting in the spring to Greece, Spain, Germany and other western European countries where they find work in construction, agriculture, logistics, landscaping and other seasonal jobs before returning to Ribnovo again before the next winter. New…