ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Every year, several artisans went to Caldeira Velha, San Miguel Island, Azores, to boil and peel willow wicker. The boiling was done in the hot thermal waters of the volcano of Fogo. The wicker is still used for handcrafting baskets and furniture. Recently, this practice has been forbidden, due to environmental protection laws.

AUTHOR
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.

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