Besides her poetic work, Cia Rinne has been working on documentary projects together with the Danish photographer Joakim Eskildsen. Rinne and Eskildsen's latest collaboration documents the life and situation of Roma in seven different countries, between India and Finland. The project has included longer stays with the Roma, and has been presented in the books The Roma Journeys and Die Romareisen (Steidl Publishers 2007).
As in her book zaroum, Cia Rinne writes in several different languages. Her poetry texts have interesting topological-conceptual layers. Sliding from one language to another is apparent in individual poems and words. In zaroum, for example, the names is a refence to both "Zaum" - "to transnational language (the slogan of the Russian formalists) and to the German word "warum", "Why".