honorable mention
Paulo Monteiro portugal
title
The flour battle
He has been a photographer since 1985.
He has developed long term projects about various subjects, such as popular religiosity, profane festivities, architecture, landscape, Nature, or the world of work.
His work has been displayed in Portugal and abroad and has won prizes and honorable mentions in Portugal and abroad.
His book "Açores Profundos/Profound Azores" portrays the genuineness of the azorean culture.
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entry description
Santa Cruz das Ribeiras is located in Pico Island, in the Azores. Every year, during Shrove Monday afternoon, a group of inhabitants, mainly young people, get together to fight a peculiar battle: they throw flour to each other while they go through the main streets of the village. Almost every one protects their eyes with glasses, because the flour is thrown with considerable force.about the photographer
Paulo Monteiro was born June 1963, in S. Miguel, Azores, where he currently lives and works.He has been a photographer since 1985.
He has developed long term projects about various subjects, such as popular religiosity, profane festivities, architecture, landscape, Nature, or the world of work.
His work has been displayed in Portugal and abroad and has won prizes and honorable mentions in Portugal and abroad.
His book "Açores Profundos/Profound Azores" portrays the genuineness of the azorean culture.
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