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  • an apartment building in Ponticelli district.<br />
<br />
The protagonist of this work it is, at the same time, the main absent: the man.<br />
The man in his social and communal dimension.<br />
The contexts designed and arranged to encourage communication, play, participation, respect, sharing, skills development, become no  - places unable to perform their function. <br />
The silent nature appears the only creature really and irreducibly faithful to the vocation involved in its essence.<br />
Their state of neglect, decay times, recalls the waiver insane man / citizen called, by its nature, to express themselves and build.<br />
The only faces represented are those mediated by the eye of the artist: a film, a stone statue .. as if to say that the true humanity still exists only in the eyes of those who seek beauty.
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  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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 />
<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_17.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
  • 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 />
<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_12.jpg
  • Nelson Cristeta loosing his pack of hunting dogs in the beginning of the hunt. November 2013 © Antonio Pedrosa.<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_01.jpg
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 />
<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_16.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
  • Crossing a winter river.<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_14.jpg
  • Ana Parreira, tracking dog handler. <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_08.jpg
  • Daniel Pinto, hunter.<br />
<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_09.jpg
  • Tracking dogs grabbing a wild boar Herdade do Pedrogão em Montemor-o-Novo. Setembro 2013.<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_10.jpg
  • A running herd of deer, February 2014<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_07.jpg
  • Luis Parreira collecting his dogs after a hunting day.<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_05.jpg
  • Traditional breakfast at a local hunting association, Mora.<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_04.jpg
  • José Troco directing the draw of hunting places. © Antonio Pedrosa<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_03.jpg
  • In the early morning Carlos Ferreira waits. © Antonio Pedrosa.<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_02.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
  • 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
  • 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
  • António Manuel Barata shooting 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_18.jpg
  • "Berras" and his tracking dogs. Montaria na Herdade da Serranheira, Fevereiro 2014.<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_13.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
  • "Berras" playing the conch to call his tracking dogs.<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_06.jpg
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