honorable mention
Henrique Silva portugal
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Carnival Night
For the duration of the festival people put away most of the social prejudice usually present in a relatively conservative society and sights such as the ones in these pictures are not uncommon. One of the typical costumes in the Torres Carnival is 'Matrafona', men dressed as women in the most imaginative ways. It is by far one of the most popular costumes every year. The carnival gathers groups of people from all over Portugal in the streets of Torres for drinking and dancing to the sound of Brazilian and Portuguese pop music which plays non-stop for the duration of the three day festival.
Henrique Silva
Lisbon, Portugal
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Every year in February the small town of Torres Vedras, Portugal is home to one the largest Carnival festivals in the world, inviting tens of thousands to abandon their everyday persona for three days and break the chains of social convention.For the duration of the festival people put away most of the social prejudice usually present in a relatively conservative society and sights such as the ones in these pictures are not uncommon. One of the typical costumes in the Torres Carnival is 'Matrafona', men dressed as women in the most imaginative ways. It is by far one of the most popular costumes every year. The carnival gathers groups of people from all over Portugal in the streets of Torres for drinking and dancing to the sound of Brazilian and Portuguese pop music which plays non-stop for the duration of the three day festival.
Henrique Silva
Lisbon, Portugal
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