ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The entire body of work was taken along 4-5 months between April and August of 2022 in different parts of the Val Miñor region in Galicia, Spain. This photo in particular was taken at the Torroña "curro" in Pontevedra on June 5th, 2022. The "Rapa das Bestas" or "shaving of the beasts" is a Galician tradition that takes place every summer on different dates and places mostly along the Galician southern rural mountainous areas. Basically the horses are rounded up and locals in a comunal effort, drive them to the "curros" which are mostly stonewalled rodeo-like structures, where their manes and tails are shaved, dewormed and mandatory microchips are implanted on the newly born foals. After all these processes they are let go to roam freely for another full year. I wanted to document the entire process in different locations where different catching technics were applied. The picture shows just a part of "curro" where horses have been rounded up. For obvious reasons I immediately identified the white horse from the rest of the herd and snapped a couple of pictures.

AUTHOR
I am a German/Spanish documentary photographer living in Mexico for about 18 years. I have worked mostly as a freelancer for several international agencies and Magazines as well as diverse media outlets worldwide. Even though I have covered a wide range of social issues in different latinamerican countries like migration, structured and systemic violence on society, political affairs, in the past few years I find myself gravitating to a more anthropological view of the projects I choose. I try to reclaim the time photographers used take to shoot a picture. Now I work much slower but I am much more satisfied with the end results.

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