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  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_Rapa_das_Bestas_38.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_Rapa_das_Bestas_31.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_Rapa_das_Bestas_27.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_Rapa_das_Bestas_18.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_00018890.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_00018889.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_00018881.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_00018880.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_00018871.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_00018865.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_Rapa_das_Bestas_34.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_Rapa_das_Bestas_32.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_Rapa_das_Bestas_29.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_Rapa_das_Bestas_17.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_Rapa_das_Bestas_16.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_Rapa_das_Bestas_15.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_Rapa_das_Bestas_13.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_Rapa_das_Bestas_05.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_Rapa_das_Bestas_06.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_Rapa_das_Bestas_04.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_Rapa_das_Bestas_03.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_00018884.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_00018883.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_00018882.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_00018879.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_00018877.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_00018876.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_00018875.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_00018873.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_00018872.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
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  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_00018869.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_00018868.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_00018867.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_00018864.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_00018862.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_00018860.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_00018855.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
    h_00018859.jpg
  • Since ancient times, already documented by the historian and geographer Strabon 2000 years ago, in the beginning of the summer, in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, locals collect and tame wild horses.<br />
The ritual consist of with screaming and waving forcing the small Galician horse to descend to the valley from the mountains that they walk free all the year. Then, these horses, in a small round curro (enclosed which retain the horses) are branded and the horsehairs are cut- rapa in Galician.<br />
After a chase and fight inside the “curro”, the “agarradores” control the beast making it possible to cut the hairs. <br />
Some of the horses are sold for the meat market and the rest is released to the wild, where the contact with humans is just going to happen in the following year.<br />
The most famous Rapa das Bestas is the one from Sabucedo, where around 700 horses are rounded in the curro and the festivities last for three days with thousands of visitors.<br />
This picture story is photographed in Sabucedo, Amil and in Canizadas.
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  • João António, hunter, 87 years old.<br />
<br />
"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_28.jpg
  • Luis Orvalho giving a speech with safety rules before the hunt. <br />
<br />
"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_30.jpg
  • Hunting landscape. <br />
<br />
"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_31.jpg
  • João Pedro Pereira, 19 years old, first time killer of wild animal. Hunting initiation ritual. <br />
<br />
"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_29.jpg
  • Hunting association, Casa do Povo da Amieira do Tejo.<br />
<br />
"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_26.jpg
  • Hunted deer on hold for review by the veterinary team.<br />
<br />
"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_27.jpg
  • Hunting association, Casa do Povo da Amieira do Tejo. <br />
<br />
"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_25.jpg
  • Antonio Alves, forest ranger.<br />
<br />
"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_22.jpg
  • Maria Teresa, huntress.<br />
<br />
"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_21.jpg
  • Hunted deer. <br />
<br />
"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_24.jpg
  • At the end of day collecting hunted deers and fawns in a private estate.<br />
<br />
"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_23.jpg
  • Paula Simões with two partridges.<br />
<br />
<br />
"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_20.jpg
  • José Pinguelo climbing the escarpment with the head of a deer.<br />
<br />
"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_19.jpg
  • Dogs in pursuit of a deer.<br />
<br />
<br />
"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
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It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
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I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
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The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
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  • António Manuel Barata shooting a deer. <br />
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"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_18.jpg
  • Fernando Melo Gomes, Jacinto Amaro and Constantino Reis in conversation at the end of a day of hunting.<br />
"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_15.jpg
  • Crossing a winter river.<br />
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"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_14.jpg
  • Ana Parreira, tracking dog handler. <br />
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"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_08.jpg
  • "Berras" and his tracking dogs. Montaria na Herdade da Serranheira, Fevereiro 2014.<br />
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"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_13.jpg
  • Ricardo Mira, Mário Pulido e Luis Orvalho at the end of hunting day with the hunted wild boars.<br />
Herdade da Serranheira, Fevereiro 2014.<br />
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"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_12.jpg
  • "Berras" pulling the slaughtered boar for a visible area for better picking. "The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_11.jpg
  • Daniel Pinto, hunter.<br />
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"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_09.jpg
  • Tracking dogs grabbing a wild boar Herdade do Pedrogão em Montemor-o-Novo. Setembro 2013.<br />
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"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_10.jpg
  • A running herd of deer, February 2014<br />
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"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_07.jpg
  • Luis Parreira collecting his dogs after a hunting day.<br />
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"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_05.jpg
  • Traditional breakfast at a local hunting association, Mora.<br />
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"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_04.jpg
  • José Troco directing the draw of hunting places. © Antonio Pedrosa<br />
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"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_03.jpg
  • In the early morning Carlos Ferreira waits. © Antonio Pedrosa.<br />
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Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_02.jpg
  • Nelson Cristeta loosing his pack of hunting dogs in the beginning of the hunt. November 2013 © Antonio Pedrosa.<br />
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"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
<br />
I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
<br />
The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
    Cac¦ºaGrossa_01.jpg
  • The horses are brought down in the valley to be closed in the arena. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors.
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  • The horses are brought down in the valley to be closed in the arena. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors.
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  • The health of the foals is checked on the montain. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors.
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  • A portrait of one man partecipating at the Rapa Das Bestas. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors. In the picture wild horses in the mountain.
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  • The horses are brought down in the valley to be closed in the arena. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors.
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  • Sapucedo - Spain. Rapa Das Bestas. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors. In the picture wild horses in the mountain.
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  • Two men watch the mountain searching for wild horses. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors.
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  • Wild horses try to escape and don't be catched. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors.
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  • A portrait of one man partecipating at the Rapa Das Bestas. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors. In the picture wild horses in the mountain.
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  • Sapucedo - Spain. Rapa Das Bestas. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors. In the picture wild horses in the mountain.
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  • One of the old men of Sabucedo that keep calm the horses once they have been catched. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors.
    h_00012034.jpg
  • Sapucedo - Spain. Rapa Das Bestas. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors. In the picture wild horses in the mountain.
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  • A man running after some wild horses. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors.
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  • A man watch for wild horses. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors.
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  • Sapucedo - Spain. Rapa Das Bestas. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors. In the picture wild horses in the mountain.
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  • Several people from Sabucedo Jump on one horse and try to control and domain the animal. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors.
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  • Several people from Sabucedo Jump on one horse and try to control and domain the animal. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors.
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  • The horses are brought down in the valley to be closed in the arena. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors.
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  • Several people from Sabucedo Jump on one horse and try to control and domain the animal. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors.
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  • Several people from Sabucedo Jump on one horse and try to control and domain the animal. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors.
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  • Several people from Sabucedo Jump on one horse and try to control and domain the animal. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors.
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  • Several people from Sabucedo Jump on one horse and try to control and domain the animal. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors.
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  • Several people from Sabucedo Jump on one horse and try to control and domain the animal. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors.
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  • Several people from Sabucedo Jump on one horse and try to control and domain the animal. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors.
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  • Several people from Sabucedo Jump on one horse and try to control and domain the animal. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors.
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  • The horses are brought down in the valley to be closed in the arena. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors.
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  • The foals are kept separated from the adults. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors.
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  • The stallions fight for the territory inside the arena. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors.
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  • The stallions fight for the territory inside the arena. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors.
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  • The horses are brought down in the valley to be closed in the arena. The Rapa Das Bestas is the event where beast and man fight each again the other. Basically 100/200 horses are captured on the montain surronding Sabucedo and then they are kept in a stone made arena. In the arena the horses are blocked by 2/3 men and the tail and the mane are cut with apposite scissors.
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  • José Teixeira cosé Teixeira with his lucky cap. <br />
<br />
"The Pose and the Prey"<br />
<br />
Hunting in my imagination was always more like taxidermy — as if the prey was just a mere accessory of the hunter's pose for his heroic photograph — the real trophy.<br />
<br />
When I decided to document the daily lives of Portuguese hunters, I had in my memory the "cliché" from the photographer José Augusto da Cunha Moraes, captured during a hippopotamus hunt in the River Zaire, Angola, and published in 1882 in the album Africa Occidental. The white hunter posed at the center of the photograph, with his rifle, surrounded by the local tribe.<br />
<br />
It was with this cliché in mind that I went to Alentejo, south of Portugal, in search of the contemporary hunters. For several months I saw deer, wild boar, foxes. I photographed popular hunting and private hunting estates, wealthy and middle class hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters. I photographed those who live from hunting and those who see it as a hobby for a few weekends during the year. I followed the different times and moments of a hunt, in between the prey and the pose, wine and blood, the crack of gunfire and the murmur of the fields .<br />
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I was lucky, I heard lots of hunting stories. I found an essentially old male population, where young people are a minority. Hunters, a threatened species by aging and loss of economic power caused by the crisis in the South of Europe.<br />
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The result of this project is this series of contemporary images, distant from the "cliche" of 1882.<br />
<br />
— Antonio Pedrosa
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