The flour battle


  • Photographer
    Paulo Monteiro
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    Paulo Monteiro
  • Date of Photograph
    2009
  • Technical Info
    35 mm film

Santa Cruz das Ribeiras is located in the island of Pico, 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 goggles, because the flour is thrown with considerable force.

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