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Hakim Boulouiz switzerland
title
Sabong
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entry description
Do you know about the Sabong? Where they dedicate a special fervor to one animal, for many millennia. Before any match, the cock is prepared and blades are attached to one of its legs, its owner whispers something to it, may be to thank it in advance for a great victory or, naturally, to bid him farewell after a long life together, clocked by a particular program of daily workouts and spontaneous care as if it was the Apple of his eye. Meanwhile, the arena is filling up and the crowd stirs. They shout, they move, they rise…it’s not just excitement! It is a way of betting. An Olympian brouhaha is dominating the place, in the middle of the smell of blood, which makes me unable to hear the clicks of my camera. Did it magically transform into a «Leica» in the land of Manila? It’s already the end, laughter and tears mix on the horizon after the betted amounts. Throughout the morning, the battles follow one after the other, since some of them can be very short! As for me, I continue to walk around the city.about the photographer
Hakim Boulouiz is an expert in urban aesthetics with a multidisciplinary training. After a diploma in architecture, a diploma in filmmaking and a master degree in territory planning, he completed a PhD at the University of Geneva analyzing the ambivalent relationship between urban design and the art of film. He was introduced to photography whilest studying architecture. He is fascinated by order and disorder of cities…by colors, by fullness and emptiness, by spaces and dressing it up in light and shadow.back to gallery