Scores of young Roma women have been paraded before potential suitors at a Bulgarian 'bride market' where poor families are given the chance to arrange financially beneficial marriages for their ...

A Roma girl poses during an open-air 'bride market' in the central village of Mogila, on March 12. The "bride market" -- held four times a year on various religious holidays during the spring and ...

Young Roma women, provocatively dressed, gyrate sensuously to the sounds of Gypsy pop, trying to catch the eye of young men clad in muscle shirts and leather jackets. With the austere, car boot ...

The first Saturday in Lent feels like any other market day in this tiny village in central Bulgaria, but fruit and vegetable stalls are nowhere to be seen among the milling patrons. Instead, young ...