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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_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_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_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_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.
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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_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.
    h_00018870.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_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_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_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 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
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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_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_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_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_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_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_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_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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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 />
<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
  • 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
  • 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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<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
  • "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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<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
  • 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 />
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<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 />
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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 />
<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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • "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" 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
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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.
    h_00012042.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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Monteiro Pedro Alves. Batismo pelo primeiro abate de javali. Montaria da zona de caça municipal de Montargil. Novembro 2013.<br />
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A pose e a presa<br />
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“Arte” ou “acto”, segundo o dicionário, a caça no meu imaginário sempre foi mais fotografia que taxidermia como se a presa fosse apenas um mero acessório da pose do caçador – o verdadeiro troféu. <br />
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Quando decidi documentar o quotidiano dos caçadores portugueses veio-me instantaneamente à memoria o “cliché” do fotógrafo J.A. da Cunha Moraes, captado durante uma caça ao hipopótamo no Rio Zaire, em Angola e publicado em 1882 no álbum Africa Occidental. O grande caçador branco posava, ao centro da fotografia, com a sua espingarda, rodeado pela tribo local.<br />
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Foi com este cliché que cheguei ao Alentejo em busca dos grandes caçadores contemporâneos. Durante meses a fio, de Mora a Mértola, passando por outros concelhos alentejanos, vi veados, javalis, raposas e corças. Fotografei montarias em zonas de caça associativa e em herdades privadas, caçadores ricos e remediados. Caçadores de carne e caçadores de troféu. Fotografei quem vive da caça e quem a vê como um hobby para alguns fins de semana durante o ano. Acompanhei os diversos tempos e momentos de uma caçada, entre a pose e a presa, o vinho e o sangue, o estampido dos tiros e o murmúrio dos campos.<br />
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Logo nos primeiro dias,  durante uma “enxota” ao javali nos campos de milho de Montemor-o-Novo, tive a sorte de cruzar-me com o José António, mais conhecido por Berras, dono da matilha Tempestade de Mora. A personalidade, conhecimentos e experiência deste caçador e do Nelson, o seu ajudante e amigo, levaram-me a segui-los ao longo de várias caçadas. <br />
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Tive sorte, ouvi histórias de caça, da boca de caçadores conscientes mas também da boca daqueles para quem só importa a quantidade. Encontrei uma população envelhecida, essencialmente masculina, onde os jovens são minoria. Uma espécie ameaçada pelo envelhecimento e pela perd
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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 Cíes Islands are an archipelago off the coast of Pontevedra in Galicia (Spain).  They were declared a Nature Reserve in 1980 and are included in the Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park created in 2002.<br />
In February 2007 the British newspaper The Guardian chose the beach of Rodas, Spain on the island of Monteagudo, as "the best beach in the world."
    Attilio Fiumarella-Cies Islands-01.jpg
  • The Cíes Islands are an archipelago off the coast of Pontevedra in Galicia (Spain).  They were declared a Nature Reserve in 1980 and are included in the Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park created in 2002.<br />
In February 2007 the British newspaper The Guardian chose the beach of Rodas, Spain on the island of Monteagudo, as "the best beach in the world."
    Attilio Fiumarella-Cies Islands-10.jpg
  • The Cíes Islands are an archipelago off the coast of Pontevedra in Galicia (Spain).  They were declared a Nature Reserve in 1980 and are included in the Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park created in 2002.<br />
In February 2007 the British newspaper The Guardian chose the beach of Rodas, Spain on the island of Monteagudo, as "the best beach in the world."
    Attilio Fiumarella-Cies Islands-09.jpg
  • The Cíes Islands are an archipelago off the coast of Pontevedra in Galicia (Spain).  They were declared a Nature Reserve in 1980 and are included in the Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park created in 2002.<br />
In February 2007 the British newspaper The Guardian chose the beach of Rodas, Spain on the island of Monteagudo, as "the best beach in the world."
    Attilio Fiumarella-Cies Islands-06.jpg
  • The Cíes Islands are an archipelago off the coast of Pontevedra in Galicia (Spain).  They were declared a Nature Reserve in 1980 and are included in the Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park created in 2002.<br />
In February 2007 the British newspaper The Guardian chose the beach of Rodas, Spain on the island of Monteagudo, as "the best beach in the world."
    Attilio Fiumarella-Cies Islands-08.jpg
  • The Cíes Islands are an archipelago off the coast of Pontevedra in Galicia (Spain).  They were declared a Nature Reserve in 1980 and are included in the Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park created in 2002.<br />
In February 2007 the British newspaper The Guardian chose the beach of Rodas, Spain on the island of Monteagudo, as "the best beach in the world."
    Attilio Fiumarella-Cies Islands-04.jpg
  • The Cíes Islands are an archipelago off the coast of Pontevedra in Galicia (Spain).  They were declared a Nature Reserve in 1980 and are included in the Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park created in 2002.<br />
In February 2007 the British newspaper The Guardian chose the beach of Rodas, Spain on the island of Monteagudo, as "the best beach in the world."
    Attilio Fiumarella-Cies Islands-05.jpg
  • The Cíes Islands are an archipelago off the coast of Pontevedra in Galicia (Spain).  They were declared a Nature Reserve in 1980 and are included in the Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park created in 2002.<br />
In February 2007 the British newspaper The Guardian chose the beach of Rodas, Spain on the island of Monteagudo, as "the best beach in the world."
    Attilio Fiumarella-Cies Islands-03.jpg
  • The Cíes Islands are an archipelago off the coast of Pontevedra in Galicia (Spain).  They were declared a Nature Reserve in 1980 and are included in the Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park created in 2002.<br />
In February 2007 the British newspaper The Guardian chose the beach of Rodas, Spain on the island of Monteagudo, as "the best beach in the world."
    Attilio Fiumarella-Cies Islands-02.jpg
  • Pilbara region. Western Australian state is famous for its wildflowers.
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  • Carvoeiro Cape, near Peniche in the north of Lisbon
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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 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.
    h_00012044.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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  • 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
  • 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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