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  • A unidentified local resident, surrounded by sparks, watches his house burning in fire in Figueira, near Pedrogao Grande, Leiria District, Center of Portugal, 18 June 2017. 480 firemen, 160 land vehicles and 1 airlane are working to extinguish this fire since at the beginning of Saturday afternoon
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  • A unidentified local resident, surrounded by sparks, watches his house burning in fire in Figueira, near Pedrogao Grande, Leiria District, Center of Portugal, 17 June 2017. 480 firemen, 160 land vehicles and 1 airlane are working to extinguish this fire since at the beginning of Saturday afternoon
    PORTUGAL FOREST FIRES2.JPG
  • A unidentified local resident, surrounded by sparks, watches his house burning in fire in Figueira, near Pedrogao Grande, Leiria District, Center of Portugal, 18 June 2017. 480 firemen, 160 land vehicles and 1 airlane are working to extinguish this fire since at the beginning of Saturday afternoon
    PORTUGAL FOREST FIRES10.JPG
  • A unidentified local resident, surrounded by sparks, watches his house burning in fire in Figueira, near Pedrogao Grande, Leiria District, Center of Portugal, 18 June 2017. 480 firemen, 160 land vehicles and 1 airlane are working to extinguish this fire since at the beginning of Saturday afternoon
    PORTUGAL FOREST FIRES9.JPG
  • A unidentified local resident, surrounded by sparks, watches his house burning in fire in Figueira, near Pedrogao Grande, Leiria District, Center of Portugal, 18 June 2017. 480 firemen, 160 land vehicles and 1 airlane are working to extinguish this fire since at the beginning of Saturday afternoon
    PORTUGAL FOREST FIRES7.JPG
  • A unidentified local resident, surrounded by sparks, watches his house burning in fire in Figueira, near Pedrogao Grande, Leiria District, Center of Portugal, 18 June 2017. 480 firemen, 160 land vehicles and 1 airlane are working to extinguish this fire since at the beginning of Saturday afternoon
    PORTUGAL FOREST FIRES6.JPG
  • A unidentified local resident, surrounded by sparks, watches his house burning in fire in Figueira, near Pedrogao Grande, Leiria District, Center of Portugal, 17 June 2017. 480 firemen, 160 land vehicles and 1 airlane are working to extinguish this fire since at the beginning of Saturday afternoon
    PORTUGAL FOREST FIRES3.JPG
  • A unidentified local resident, surrounded by sparks, watches his house burning in fire in Figueira, near Pedrogao Grande, Leiria District, Center of Portugal, 17 June 2017. 480 firemen, 160 land vehicles and 1 airlane are working to extinguish this fire since at the beginning of Saturday afternoon
    PORTUGAL FOREST FIRES4.JPG
  • Just in August 14000 hectares fire in Portugal. The Portuguese forest composed mainly of planted eucalyptus is a clock bomb that when explode generate the most dangerous fires that a fireman can fight.
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  • Just in August 14000 hectares fire in Portugal. The Portuguese forest composed mainly of planted eucalyptus is a clock bomb that when explode generate the most dangerous fires that a fireman can fight.
    h_00022590.jpg
  • Just in August 14000 hectares fire in Portugal. The Portuguese forest composed mainly of planted eucalyptus is a clock bomb that when explode generate the most dangerous fires that a fireman can fight.
    h_00022578.jpg
  • Just in August 14000 hectares fire in Portugal. The Portuguese forest composed mainly of planted eucalyptus is a clock bomb that when explode generate the most dangerous fires that a fireman can fight.
    h_00022601.jpg
  • Just in August 14000 hectares fire in Portugal. The Portuguese forest composed mainly of planted eucalyptus is a clock bomb that when explode generate the most dangerous fires that a fireman can fight.
    h_00022600.jpg
  • Just in August 14000 hectares fire in Portugal. The Portuguese forest composed mainly of planted eucalyptus is a clock bomb that when explode generate the most dangerous fires that a fireman can fight.
    h_00022598.jpg
  • Just in August 14000 hectares fire in Portugal. The Portuguese forest composed mainly of planted eucalyptus is a clock bomb that when explode generate the most dangerous fires that a fireman can fight.
    h_00022599.jpg
  • Just in August 14000 hectares fire in Portugal. The Portuguese forest composed mainly of planted eucalyptus is a clock bomb that when explode generate the most dangerous fires that a fireman can fight.
    h_00022592.jpg
  • Just in August 14000 hectares fire in Portugal. The Portuguese forest composed mainly of planted eucalyptus is a clock bomb that when explode generate the most dangerous fires that a fireman can fight.
    h_00022597.jpg
  • Just in August 14000 hectares fire in Portugal. The Portuguese forest composed mainly of planted eucalyptus is a clock bomb that when explode generate the most dangerous fires that a fireman can fight.
    h_00022595.jpg
  • Just in August 14000 hectares fire in Portugal. The Portuguese forest composed mainly of planted eucalyptus is a clock bomb that when explode generate the most dangerous fires that a fireman can fight.
    h_00022594.jpg
  • Just in August 14000 hectares fire in Portugal. The Portuguese forest composed mainly of planted eucalyptus is a clock bomb that when explode generate the most dangerous fires that a fireman can fight.
    h_00022593.jpg
  • Just in August 14000 hectares fire in Portugal. The Portuguese forest composed mainly of planted eucalyptus is a clock bomb that when explode generate the most dangerous fires that a fireman can fight.
    h_00022583.jpg
  • Just in August 14000 hectares fire in Portugal. The Portuguese forest composed mainly of planted eucalyptus is a clock bomb that when explode generate the most dangerous fires that a fireman can fight.
    h_00022591.jpg
  • Just in August 14000 hectares fire in Portugal. The Portuguese forest composed mainly of planted eucalyptus is a clock bomb that when explode generate the most dangerous fires that a fireman can fight.
    h_00022589.jpg
  • Just in August 14000 hectares fire in Portugal. The Portuguese forest composed mainly of planted eucalyptus is a clock bomb that when explode generate the most dangerous fires that a fireman can fight.
    h_00022588.jpg
  • Just in August 14000 hectares fire in Portugal. The Portuguese forest composed mainly of planted eucalyptus is a clock bomb that when explode generate the most dangerous fires that a fireman can fight.
    h_00022587.jpg
  • Just in August 14000 hectares fire in Portugal. The Portuguese forest composed mainly of planted eucalyptus is a clock bomb that when explode generate the most dangerous fires that a fireman can fight.
    h_00022586.jpg
  • Just in August 14000 hectares fire in Portugal. The Portuguese forest composed mainly of planted eucalyptus is a clock bomb that when explode generate the most dangerous fires that a fireman can fight.
    h_00022585.jpg
  • Just in August 14000 hectares fire in Portugal. The Portuguese forest composed mainly of planted eucalyptus is a clock bomb that when explode generate the most dangerous fires that a fireman can fight.
    h_00022584.jpg
  • Just in August 14000 hectares fire in Portugal. The Portuguese forest composed mainly of planted eucalyptus is a clock bomb that when explode generate the most dangerous fires that a fireman can fight.
    h_00022582.jpg
  • Just in August 14000 hectares fire in Portugal. The Portuguese forest composed mainly of planted eucalyptus is a clock bomb that when explode generate the most dangerous fires that a fireman can fight.
    h_00022580.jpg
  • Just in August 14000 hectares fire in Portugal. The Portuguese forest composed mainly of planted eucalyptus is a clock bomb that when explode generate the most dangerous fires that a fireman can fight.
    h_00022581.jpg
  • Just in August 14000 hectares fire in Portugal. The Portuguese forest composed mainly of planted eucalyptus is a clock bomb that when explode generate the most dangerous fires that a fireman can fight.
    h_00022579.jpg
  • Just in August 14000 hectares fire in Portugal. The Portuguese forest composed mainly of planted eucalyptus is a clock bomb that when explode generate the most dangerous fires that a fireman can fight.
    h_00022577.jpg
  • Just in August 14000 hectares fire in Portugal. The Portuguese forest composed mainly of planted eucalyptus is a clock bomb that when explode generate the most dangerous fires that a fireman can fight.
    h_00022576.jpg
  • Summer 2015. La Fosse, Belgium. Fire sparkles, smoke  and rain drops while we were doing a bonfire during our international work-camp experience on La Fosse Mill.
    DavidMolinaInBetween-8.jpg
  • A demolition car after a fire.<br />
<br />
The protagonist of this work it is, at the same time, the main absent: the man.<br />
The man in his social and communal dimension.<br />
The contexts designed and arranged to encourage communication, play, participation, respect, sharing, skills development, become no  - places unable to perform their function. <br />
The silent nature appears the only creature really and irreducibly faithful to the vocation involved in its essence.<br />
Their state of neglect, decay times, recalls the waiver insane man / citizen called, by its nature, to express themselves and build.<br />
The only faces represented are those mediated by the eye of the artist: a film, a stone statue .. as if to say that the true humanity still exists only in the eyes of those who seek beauty.
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  • A group of young people performs for tourists a traditional dance by the fire. Dogon youth are trying to take advantage of the benefits brought by tourism to their ethnic group.  The Dogon Country is the most visited part of Mali with tourists visiting its tipical  villages that can be located on the cliff, on the sandy plain or in the rocky plateau
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  • A group of young people performs for tourists a traditional dance by the fire. Dogon youth are trying to take advantage of the benefits brought by tourism to their ethnic group.  The Dogon Country is the most visited part of Mali with tourists visiting its tipical  villages that can be located on the cliff, on the sandy plain or in the rocky plateau
    080808-LFC-2697.jpg
  • A group of young people performs for tourists a traditional dance by the fire. Dogon youth are trying to take advantage of the benefits brought by tourism to their ethnic group.  The Dogon Country is the most visited part of Mali with tourists visiting its tipical  villages that can be located on the cliff, on the sandy plain or in the rocky plateau
    080808-LFC-2598.jpg
  • A group of young people performs for tourists a traditional dance by the fire. Dogon youth are trying to take advantage of the benefits brought by tourism to their ethnic group.  The Dogon Country is the most visited part of Mali with tourists visiting its tipical  villages that can be located on the cliff, on the sandy plain or in the rocky plateau
    080808-LFC-2594.jpg
  • Walking on fire at the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket, Thailand. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making.
    h_VegetarianFestival26.jpg
  • Preparing the fire for cooking and warm themselves from the cold.<br />
The gipsies call it "the Cult", it is a kind of pact that they get together twice a week in a common hut to pray for good and exorcise the evil. Inside the hut there´s a heavy atmosphere and things seem to be a blend of fantasy and reality. Tens of gipsies form a circle of screams and cries and you can hear a mix of prays, complains, desperation and guilt. A gipsie women faints on the floor almost like she has been exorcised and she had a demon inside her, slowly with the help of the others she recovers.<br />
The truth is that the cult is a way that gipsies chose to express themselves, something that is very much theirs, just like the sound of the gipsies guitars, shows something very real, the suffering of their spirits.
    h_00019428.jpg
  • Summer 2015. La Fosse, Belgium. Fire sparkles, smoke  and rain drops while we were doing a bonfire during our international work-camp experience on La Fosse Mill.
    DavidMolinaInBetween-9.jpg
  • Kids watching fireworks during the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket, Thailand. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making. A chosen few among the participants, called warriors, will pierce themselves with objects such as nails, swords, and knives. The piercing takes place in a shrine and is followed by the most spectacular part of the festival, the street processions: just like in a parade they file along the streets of Phuket, with groups of one or several pierced warriors leading a number of people behind them. Onlookers throw fireworks at them as they pass; these are intended to be as loud as possible as the common belief is that this will banish evil spirits. The warriors walk and dance in a trance-like state, unshaken by the noise.
    h_VegetarianFestival36.jpg
  • Kids playing with fireworks at during the Vegetarian Festival. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making.
    h_VegetarianFestival34.jpg
  • Warriors preparing for fire-walking at the Vegetarian Festival. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making. Participants of the festival adhere to a strict vegetarian diet for at least three days. This is one of the 10 main rules meant to ensure good hygiene and inner peace. Sex, alcohol, and meat are strictly forbidden. As cleanliness is considered to be of paramount importance, menstruating and pregnant women are not supposed to attend any of the rituals. The festival rules also call for impeccable mental and physical behavior as well as white clothing.
    h_VegetarianFestival25.jpg
  • Warriors preparing for fire-walking at the Vegetarian Festival. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making. Participants of the festival adhere to a strict vegetarian diet for at least three days. This is one of the 10 main rules meant to ensure good hygiene and inner peace. Sex, alcohol, and meat are strictly forbidden. As cleanliness is considered to be of paramount importance, menstruating and pregnant women are not supposed to attend any of the rituals. The festival rules also call for impeccable mental and physical behavior as well as white clothing.
    h_VegetarianFestival24.jpg
  • Locals wearing white clothes wait for warriors during a street procession. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making. Participants of the festival adhere to a strict vegetarian diet for at least three days. This is one of the 10 main rules meant to ensure good hygiene and inner peace. Sex, alcohol, and meat are strictly forbidden. As cleanliness is considered to be of paramount importance, menstruating and pregnant women are not supposed to attend any of the rituals. The festival rules also call for impeccable mental and physical behavior as well as white clothing.
    h_VegetarianFestival13.jpg
  • Preparing the fire for cooking and warm themselves from the cold.<br />
The gipsies call it "the Cult", it is a kind of pact that they get together twice a week in a common hut to pray for good and exorcise the evil. Inside the hut there´s a heavy atmosphere and things seem to be a blend of fantasy and reality. Tens of gipsies form a circle of screams and cries and you can hear a mix of prays, complains, desperation and guilt. A gipsie women faints on the floor almost like she has been exorcised and she had a demon inside her, slowly with the help of the others she recovers.<br />
The truth is that the cult is a way that gipsies chose to express themselves, something that is very much theirs, just like the sound of the gipsies guitars, shows something very real, the suffering of their spirits.
    h_00019430.jpg
  • A boy plays with fireworks during the Vegetarian Festival in Thailand. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making. The origins of the festival date back to 1825, when a traveling Chinese opera company came to Phuket to perform for the miners there. An epidemic broke out and as the members of the company fell sick, they adhered to a vegetarian diet to honor two of the Emperor Gods, Kiew Ong Tai The and Yok Ong Sone Teh. When they became well again shortly thereafter, the people of Phuket followed the companyÕs example - and have celebrated the festival ever since to bring good luck to their communities.
    h_VegetarianFestival35.jpg
  • A girl watch the last day of the Vegetarian Festival. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making.
    h_VegetarianFestival33.jpg
  • Locals watching the festival in Phuket Town, from a safe distance. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making. Participants of the festival adhere to a strict vegetarian diet for at least three days. This is one of the 10 main rules meant to ensure good hygiene and inner peace. Sex, alcohol, and meat are strictly forbidden. As cleanliness is considered to be of paramount importance, menstruating and pregnant women are not supposed to attend any of the rituals. The festival rules also call for impeccable mental and physical behavior as well as white clothing.
    h_VegetarianFestival32.jpg
  • Locals watching the festival in Phuket Town. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making. The origins of the festival date back to 1825, when a traveling Chinese opera company came to Phuket to perform for the miners there. An epidemic broke out and as the members of the company fell sick, they adhered to a vegetarian diet to honor two of the Emperor Gods, Kiew Ong Tai The and Yok Ong Sone Teh. When they became well again shortly thereafter, the people of Phuket followed the companyÕs example - and have celebrated the festival ever since to bring good luck to their communities.
    h_VegetarianFestival31.jpg
  • Locals watching the last street procession. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making. A chosen few among the participants, called warriors, will pierce themselves with objects such as nails, swords, and knives. The piercing takes place in a shrine and is followed by the most spectacular part of the festival, the street processions: just like in a parade they file along the streets of Phuket, with groups of one or several pierced warriors leading a number of people behind them. Onlookers throw fireworks at them as they pass; these are intended to be as loud as possible as the common belief is that this will banish evil spirits. The warriors walk and dance in a trance-like state, unshaken by the noise
    h_VegetarianFestival29.jpg
  • Street procession in Phuket Town. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making.
    h_VegetarianFestival30.jpg
  • Crowds gather in Phuket Town during the last day of the festival. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making.
    h_VegetarianFestival27.jpg
  • Locals watching the last street procession. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making. A chosen few among the participants, called warriors, will pierce themselves with objects such as nails, swords, and knives. The piercing takes place in a shrine and is followed by the most spectacular part of the festival, the street processions: just like in a parade they file along the streets of Phuket, with groups of one or several pierced warriors leading a number of people behind them. Onlookers throw fireworks at them as they pass; these are intended to be as loud as possible as the common belief is that this will banish evil spirits. The warriors walk and dance in a trance-like state, unshaken by the noise
    h_VegetarianFestival28.jpg
  • Bladed ladder climbing in Phuket Town, Thailand. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making.
    h_VegetarianFestival23.jpg
  • A warrior during a spiritual ritual in Phuket. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making.
    h_VegetarianFestival22.jpg
  • Fireworks during street procession. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making.
    h_VegetarianFestival20.jpg
  • Fireworks during street procession. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making.
    h_VegetarianFestival19.jpg
  • Street procession in Phuket Town. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making. Participants of the festival adhere to a strict vegetarian diet for at least three days. This is one of the 10 main rules meant to ensure good hygiene and inner peace. Sex, alcohol, and meat are strictly forbidden. As cleanliness is considered to be of paramount importance, menstruating and pregnant women are not supposed to attend any of the rituals. The festival rules also call for impeccable mental and physical behavior as well as white clothing.
    h_VegetarianFestival18.jpg
  • Female participant during a street procession in Phuket Town. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making. The origins of the festival date back to 1825, when a traveling Chinese opera company came to Phuket to perform for the miners there. An epidemic broke out and as the members of the company fell sick, they adhered to a vegetarian diet to honor two of the Emperor Gods, Kiew Ong Tai The and Yok Ong Sone Teh. When they became well again shortly thereafter, the people of Phuket followed the companyÕs example - and have celebrated the festival ever since to bring good luck to their communities.
    h_VegetarianFestival17.jpg
  • Locals of Phuket Town use fireworks to drive away evil spirits during the street procession. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making.
    h_VegetarianFestival16.jpg
  • Street procession in Phuket Town with warrior in foreground followed by helpers. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making.
    h_VegetarianFestival15.jpg
  • Locals wearing white clothes wait for warriors during a street procession. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making. Participants of the festival adhere to a strict vegetarian diet for at least three days. This is one of the 10 main rules meant to ensure good hygiene and inner peace. Sex, alcohol, and meat are strictly forbidden. As cleanliness is considered to be of paramount importance, menstruating and pregnant women are not supposed to attend any of the rituals. The festival rules also call for impeccable mental and physical behavior as well as white clothing.
    h_VegetarianFestival14.jpg
  • Two pierced warriors during the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket, Thailand. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making. The origins of the festival date back to 1825, when a traveling Chinese opera company came to Phuket to perform for the miners there. An epidemic broke out and as the members of the company fell sick, they adhered to a vegetarian diet to honor two of the Emperor Gods, Kiew Ong Tai The and Yok Ong Sone Teh. When they became well again shortly thereafter, the people of Phuket followed the companyÕs example - and have celebrated the festival ever since to bring good luck to their communities.
    h_VegetarianFestival12.jpg
  • A pierced warrior during the Vegetarian Festival. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making. A chosen few among the participants, called warriors, will pierce themselves with objects such as nails, swords, and knives. The piercing takes place in a shrine and is followed by the most spectacular part of the festival, the street processions: just like in a parade they file along the streets of Phuket, with groups of one or several pierced warriors leading a number of people behind them. Onlookers throw fireworks at them as they pass; these are intended to be as loud as possible as the common belief is that this will banish evil spirits. The warriors walk and dance in a trance-like state, unshaken by the noise.
    h_VegetarianFestival11.jpg
  • A pierced warrior during the Vegetarian Festival. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making. A chosen few among the participants, called warriors, will pierce themselves with objects such as nails, swords, and knives. The piercing takes place in a shrine and is followed by the most spectacular part of the festival, the street processions: just like in a parade they file along the streets of Phuket, with groups of one or several pierced warriors leading a number of people behind them. Onlookers throw fireworks at them as they pass; these are intended to be as loud as possible as the common belief is that this will banish evil spirits. The warriors walk and dance in a trance-like state, unshaken by the noise.
    h_VegetarianFestival09.jpg
  • A warrior gets pierced before the street procession during the Vegetarian Festival. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making. A chosen few among the participants, called warriors, will pierce themselves with objects such as nails, swords, and knives. The piercing takes place in a shrine and is followed by the most spectacular part of the festival, the street processions: just like in a parade they file along the streets of Phuket, with groups of one or several pierced warriors leading a number of people behind them. Onlookers throw fireworks at them as they pass; these are intended to be as loud as possible as the common belief is that this will banish evil spirits. The warriors walk and dance in a trance-like state, unshaken by the noise.
    h_VegetarianFestival08.jpg
  • Locals praying inside a shrine during the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket, Thailand. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making. The origins of the festival date back to 1825, when a traveling Chinese opera company came to Phuket to perform for the miners there. An epidemic broke out and as the members of the company fell sick, they adhered to a vegetarian diet to honor two of the Emperor Gods, Kiew Ong Tai The and Yok Ong Sone Teh. When they became well again shortly thereafter, the people of Phuket followed the companyÕs example - and have celebrated the festival ever since to bring good luck to their communities.
    h_VegetarianFestival07.jpg
  • Streets of Phuket filled with smoke from the fireworks during the Vegetarian Festival. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making.
    h_VegetarianFestival06.jpg
  • A warrior during a spiritual ritual in Phuket. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making. The origins of the festival date back to 1825, when a traveling Chinese opera company came to Phuket to perform for the miners there. An epidemic broke out and as the members of the company fell sick, they adhered to a vegetarian diet to honor two of the Emperor Gods, Kiew Ong Tai The and Yok Ong Sone Teh. When they became well again shortly thereafter, the people of Phuket followed the companyÕs example - and have celebrated the festival ever since to bring good luck to their communities.
    h_VegetarianFestival05.jpg
  • A warrior dancing through Phuket Town during the Vegetarian Festival. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making. Participants of the festival adhere to a strict vegetarian diet for at least three days. This is one of the 10 main rules meant to ensure good hygiene and inner peace. Sex, alcohol, and meat are strictly forbidden. As cleanliness is considered to be of paramount importance, menstruating and pregnant women are not supposed to attend any of the rituals. The festival rules also call for impeccable mental and physical behavior as well as white clothing.
    h_VegetarianFestival04.jpg
  • Locals in the street during Phuket Vegetarian Festival. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making. Participants of the festival adhere to a strict vegetarian diet for at least three days. This is one of the 10 main rules meant to ensure good hygiene and inner peace. Sex, alcohol, and meat are strictly forbidden. As cleanliness is considered to be of paramount importance, menstruating and pregnant women are not supposed to attend any of the rituals. The festival rules also call for impeccable mental and physical behavior as well as white clothing.
    h_VegetarianFestival03.jpg
  • Warrior during street procession in Phuket. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making.
    h_VegetarianFestival02.jpg
  • Street procession in Phuket Town. Every year during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicks off. The religious festival in Phuket, Thailand, lasts for 10 days, during which sacred rituals take place in the many Chinese shrines and temples. Walking on fire and climbing ladders with bladed rungs barefoot are two of several rituals believed to bring good fortune. The main purpose of the festival, however, is spiritual cleansing and merit-making. A chosen few among the participants, called warriors, will pierce themselves with objects such as nails, swords, and knives. The piercing takes place in a shrine and is followed by the most spectacular part of the festival, the street processions: just like in a parade they file along the streets of Phuket, with groups of one or several pierced warriors leading a number of people behind them. Onlookers throw fireworks at them as they pass; these are intended to be as loud as possible as the common belief is that this will banish evil spirits. The warriors walk and dance in a trance-like state, unshaken by the noise.
    h_VegetarianFestival01.jpg
  • Refrigerated truck of portuguese Civil Protection arrives to carry the bodies of the dead near the burned cars at N236 road between Figueiro dos Vinhos and Castanheira de Pera, Pedrogao Grande, 18 june 2017. At least sixty two people have been killed in forest fires in central Portugal, with many being trapped in their cars as flames swept over a road on the evening of 17 June 2017. A total of 692 firefighters are providing assistance.
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  • Allendale Town, New Year's Eve 2017. Men are carrying burning barrels filled with tar, sawdust, kindling and paraffin on their heads.<br />
The Tar Barl Festival has been Allendale's way of welcoming the new year for at least 160 years.<br />
The normally quiet village heaves with people - locals, visitors and the barrel-carrying "guisers" wearing fancy dress or a disguise. <br />
A fiery procession swarms round the Northumberland village, returning to the square just before midnight to throw its barrels on to the waiting bonfire, setting it alight.
    Attilio Fiumarella_The Tar Barl Fest...jpg
  • Allendale Town, New Year's Eve 2017. Men are carrying burning barrels filled with tar, sawdust, kindling and paraffin on their heads.<br />
The Tar Barl Festival has been Allendale's way of welcoming the new year for at least 160 years.<br />
The normally quiet village heaves with people - locals, visitors and the barrel-carrying "guisers" wearing fancy dress or a disguise. <br />
A fiery procession swarms round the Northumberland village, returning to the square just before midnight to throw its barrels on to the waiting bonfire, setting it alight.
    Attilio Fiumarella_The Tar Barl Fest...jpg
  • Allendale Town, New Year's Eve 2017. Men are carrying burning barrels filled with tar, sawdust, kindling and paraffin on their heads.<br />
The Tar Barl Festival has been Allendale's way of welcoming the new year for at least 160 years.<br />
The normally quiet village heaves with people - locals, visitors and the barrel-carrying "guisers" wearing fancy dress or a disguise. <br />
A fiery procession swarms round the Northumberland village, returning to the square just before midnight to throw its barrels on to the waiting bonfire, setting it alight.
    Attilio Fiumarella_The Tar Barl Fest...jpg
  • Allendale Town, New Year's Eve 2017. Men are carrying burning barrels filled with tar, sawdust, kindling and paraffin on their heads.<br />
The Tar Barl Festival has been Allendale's way of welcoming the new year for at least 160 years.<br />
The normally quiet village heaves with people - locals, visitors and the barrel-carrying "guisers" wearing fancy dress or a disguise. <br />
A fiery procession swarms round the Northumberland village, returning to the square just before midnight to throw its barrels on to the waiting bonfire, setting it alight.
    Attilio Fiumarella_The Tar Barl Fest...jpg
  • Allendale Town, New Year's Eve 2017. Men are carrying burning barrels filled with tar, sawdust, kindling and paraffin on their heads.<br />
The Tar Barl Festival has been Allendale's way of welcoming the new year for at least 160 years.<br />
The normally quiet village heaves with people - locals, visitors and the barrel-carrying "guisers" wearing fancy dress or a disguise. <br />
A fiery procession swarms round the Northumberland village, returning to the square just before midnight to throw its barrels on to the waiting bonfire, setting it alight.
    Attilio Fiumarella_The Tar Barl Fest...jpg
  • Allendale Town, New Year's Eve 2017. Men are carrying burning barrels filled with tar, sawdust, kindling and paraffin on their heads.<br />
The Tar Barl Festival has been Allendale's way of welcoming the new year for at least 160 years.<br />
The normally quiet village heaves with people - locals, visitors and the barrel-carrying "guisers" wearing fancy dress or a disguise. <br />
A fiery procession swarms round the Northumberland village, returning to the square just before midnight to throw its barrels on to the waiting bonfire, setting it alight.
    Attilio Fiumarella_The Tar Barl Fest...jpg
  • Allendale Town, New Year's Eve 2017. Men are carrying burning barrels filled with tar, sawdust, kindling and paraffin on their heads.<br />
The Tar Barl Festival has been Allendale's way of welcoming the new year for at least 160 years.<br />
The normally quiet village heaves with people - locals, visitors and the barrel-carrying "guisers" wearing fancy dress or a disguise. <br />
A fiery procession swarms round the Northumberland village, returning to the square just before midnight to throw its barrels on to the waiting bonfire, setting it alight.
    Attilio Fiumarella_The Tar Barl Fest...jpg
  • Allendale Town, New Year's Eve 2017. Men are carrying burning barrels filled with tar, sawdust, kindling and paraffin on their heads.<br />
The Tar Barl Festival has been Allendale's way of welcoming the new year for at least 160 years.<br />
The normally quiet village heaves with people - locals, visitors and the barrel-carrying "guisers" wearing fancy dress or a disguise. <br />
A fiery procession swarms round the Northumberland village, returning to the square just before midnight to throw its barrels on to the waiting bonfire, setting it alight.
    Attilio Fiumarella_The Tar Barl Fest...jpg
  • Allendale Town, New Year's Eve 2017. Men are carrying burning barrels filled with tar, sawdust, kindling and paraffin on their heads.<br />
The Tar Barl Festival has been Allendale's way of welcoming the new year for at least 160 years.<br />
The normally quiet village heaves with people - locals, visitors and the barrel-carrying "guisers" wearing fancy dress or a disguise. <br />
A fiery procession swarms round the Northumberland village, returning to the square just before midnight to throw its barrels on to the waiting bonfire, setting it alight.
    Attilio Fiumarella_The Tar Barl Fest...jpg
  • Allendale Town, New Year's Eve 2017. Men are carrying burning barrels filled with tar, sawdust, kindling and paraffin on their heads.<br />
The Tar Barl Festival has been Allendale's way of welcoming the new year for at least 160 years.<br />
The normally quiet village heaves with people - locals, visitors and the barrel-carrying "guisers" wearing fancy dress or a disguise. <br />
A fiery procession swarms round the Northumberland village, returning to the square just before midnight to throw its barrels on to the waiting bonfire, setting it alight.
    Attilio Fiumarella_The Tar Barl Fest...jpg
  • Allendale Town, New Year's Eve 2017. Men are carrying burning barrels filled with tar, sawdust, kindling and paraffin on their heads.<br />
The Tar Barl Festival has been Allendale's way of welcoming the new year for at least 160 years.<br />
The normally quiet village heaves with people - locals, visitors and the barrel-carrying "guisers" wearing fancy dress or a disguise. <br />
A fiery procession swarms round the Northumberland village, returning to the square just before midnight to throw its barrels on to the waiting bonfire, setting it alight.
    Attilio Fiumarella_The Tar Barl Fest...jpg
  • Allendale Town, New Year's Eve 2017. Men are carrying burning barrels filled with tar, sawdust, kindling and paraffin on their heads.<br />
The Tar Barl Festival has been Allendale's way of welcoming the new year for at least 160 years.<br />
The normally quiet village heaves with people - locals, visitors and the barrel-carrying "guisers" wearing fancy dress or a disguise. <br />
A fiery procession swarms round the Northumberland village, returning to the square just before midnight to throw its barrels on to the waiting bonfire, setting it alight.
    Attilio Fiumarella_The Tar Barl Fest...jpg
  • Allendale Town, New Year's Eve 2017. Men are carrying burning barrels filled with tar, sawdust, kindling and paraffin on their heads.<br />
The Tar Barl Festival has been Allendale's way of welcoming the new year for at least 160 years.<br />
The normally quiet village heaves with people - locals, visitors and the barrel-carrying "guisers" wearing fancy dress or a disguise. <br />
A fiery procession swarms round the Northumberland village, returning to the square just before midnight to throw its barrels on to the waiting bonfire, setting it alight.
    Attilio Fiumarella_The Tar Barl Fest...jpg
  • Allendale Town, New Year's Eve 2017. Men are carrying burning barrels filled with tar, sawdust, kindling and paraffin on their heads.<br />
The Tar Barl Festival has been Allendale's way of welcoming the new year for at least 160 years.<br />
The normally quiet village heaves with people - locals, visitors and the barrel-carrying "guisers" wearing fancy dress or a disguise. <br />
A fiery procession swarms round the Northumberland village, returning to the square just before midnight to throw its barrels on to the waiting bonfire, setting it alight.
    Attilio Fiumarella_The Tar Barl Fest...jpg
  • Allendale Town, New Year's Eve 2017. Men are carrying burning barrels filled with tar, sawdust, kindling and paraffin on their heads.<br />
The Tar Barl Festival has been Allendale's way of welcoming the new year for at least 160 years.<br />
The normally quiet village heaves with people - locals, visitors and the barrel-carrying "guisers" wearing fancy dress or a disguise. <br />
A fiery procession swarms round the Northumberland village, returning to the square just before midnight to throw its barrels on to the waiting bonfire, setting it alight.
    Attilio Fiumarella_The Tar Barl Fest...jpg
  • Allendale Town, New Year's Eve 2017. Men are carrying burning barrels filled with tar, sawdust, kindling and paraffin on their heads.<br />
The Tar Barl Festival has been Allendale's way of welcoming the new year for at least 160 years.<br />
The normally quiet village heaves with people - locals, visitors and the barrel-carrying "guisers" wearing fancy dress or a disguise. <br />
A fiery procession swarms round the Northumberland village, returning to the square just before midnight to throw its barrels on to the waiting bonfire, setting it alight.
    Attilio Fiumarella_The Tar Barl Fest...jpg
  • Allendale Town, New Year's Eve 2017. Men are carrying burning barrels filled with tar, sawdust, kindling and paraffin on their heads.<br />
The Tar Barl Festival has been Allendale's way of welcoming the new year for at least 160 years.<br />
The normally quiet village heaves with people - locals, visitors and the barrel-carrying "guisers" wearing fancy dress or a disguise. <br />
A fiery procession swarms round the Northumberland village, returning to the square just before midnight to throw its barrels on to the waiting bonfire, setting it alight.
    Attilio Fiumarella_The Tar Barl Fest...jpg
  • Allendale Town, New Year's Eve 2017. Men are carrying burning barrels filled with tar, sawdust, kindling and paraffin on their heads.<br />
The Tar Barl Festival has been Allendale's way of welcoming the new year for at least 160 years.<br />
The normally quiet village heaves with people - locals, visitors and the barrel-carrying "guisers" wearing fancy dress or a disguise. <br />
A fiery procession swarms round the Northumberland village, returning to the square just before midnight to throw its barrels on to the waiting bonfire, setting it alight.
    Attilio Fiumarella_The Tar Barl Fest...jpg
  • Allendale Town, New Year's Eve 2017. Men are carrying burning barrels filled with tar, sawdust, kindling and paraffin on their heads.<br />
The Tar Barl Festival has been Allendale's way of welcoming the new year for at least 160 years.<br />
The normally quiet village heaves with people - locals, visitors and the barrel-carrying "guisers" wearing fancy dress or a disguise. <br />
A fiery procession swarms round the Northumberland village, returning to the square just before midnight to throw its barrels on to the waiting bonfire, setting it alight.
    Attilio Fiumarella_The Tar Barl Fest...jpg
  • Allendale Town, New Year's Eve 2017. Men are carrying burning barrels filled with tar, sawdust, kindling and paraffin on their heads.<br />
The Tar Barl Festival has been Allendale's way of welcoming the new year for at least 160 years.<br />
The normally quiet village heaves with people - locals, visitors and the barrel-carrying "guisers" wearing fancy dress or a disguise. <br />
A fiery procession swarms round the Northumberland village, returning to the square just before midnight to throw its barrels on to the waiting bonfire, setting it alight.
    Attilio Fiumarella_The Tar Barl Fest...jpg
  • Allendale Town, New Year's Eve 2017. Men are carrying burning barrels filled with tar, sawdust, kindling and paraffin on their heads.<br />
The Tar Barl Festival has been Allendale's way of welcoming the new year for at least 160 years.<br />
The normally quiet village heaves with people - locals, visitors and the barrel-carrying "guisers" wearing fancy dress or a disguise. <br />
A fiery procession swarms round the Northumberland village, returning to the square just before midnight to throw its barrels on to the waiting bonfire, setting it alight.
    Attilio Fiumarella_The Tar Barl Fest...jpg
  • Allendale Town, New Year's Eve 2017. Men are carrying burning barrels filled with tar, sawdust, kindling and paraffin on their heads.<br />
The Tar Barl Festival has been Allendale's way of welcoming the new year for at least 160 years.<br />
The normally quiet village heaves with people - locals, visitors and the barrel-carrying "guisers" wearing fancy dress or a disguise. <br />
A fiery procession swarms round the Northumberland village, returning to the square just before midnight to throw its barrels on to the waiting bonfire, setting it alight.
    Attilio Fiumarella_The Tar Barl Fest...jpg
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