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The water battle (Series)
DESCRIPTION
The city of Ponta Delgada is located in the São Miguel Island, in the Azores. Every year on Shrove Tuesday afternoon, a group of inhabitants, mainly young people, get together in the city`s main boulevard to fight a peculiar battle: they throw plastic bags filled with water at each other. Many of them protect their heads with helmets, because the water is thrown with considerable force.
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.
His work has been displayed in Portugal and abroad, and has been published in Black+White Photography, Réponses Photo, Dodho magazine, MonoVisions, Private, F-Stop Magazine, Don`t Take Pictures.
He has won Prémio da IV Bienal de Fotografia, Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal, 1995, Bronze Award, Black & White Magazine single Image Contest 2010, International Photography Awards 2011, People: Culture Second Place, Black+White Photographer of the Year 2015, Documentary category winner, Tetenal European B/W Classics Award 2015 – 2nd place, Black&White International Award Rome, 2016, First prize Best Single Shot, Monochrome Awards 2016, First Place Winner in Photojournalism.
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 been published in Black+White Photography, Réponses Photo, Dodho magazine, MonoVisions, Private, F-Stop Magazine, Don`t Take Pictures.
He has won Prémio da IV Bienal de Fotografia, Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal, 1995, Bronze Award, Black & White Magazine single Image Contest 2010, International Photography Awards 2011, People: Culture Second Place, Black+White Photographer of the Year 2015, Documentary category winner, Tetenal European B/W Classics Award 2015 – 2nd place, Black&White International Award Rome, 2016, First prize Best Single Shot, Monochrome Awards 2016, First Place Winner in Photojournalism.
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