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Pig slaughtering is an ancient custom passed down to us from the Celts, a ritual that takes place in community and forms part of the rural tradition. This might appear to be a secluded place in East Europe, but it is not. Bousés is a small town in Galicia (Spain) near Portugal where the slaughtering is done in the month of December. Families and neighbours gather together around this tradition which today is an excuse to return to the places from which they migrated. In the past the slaughter was meant to feed a family for a whole year. At the present time, the men wear military style clothes and combine the slaughter work with hours of hunting in the mountains. It is a time of festivity and copious meals around the fire. Bousés, Galicia (Spain), 2016.

About author:

Pamplona (Spain) 1978. She studied photography at the School of Art in Pamplona. Independent photographer from 2001, she devoted her professional life to photo-journalism and publicity photography. Since 2012 she has been editor of the magazine Contraluz published by the Agrupación Fotográfica Navarra. She has also collaborated with non-profit associations such as HYPOHEALS and NOSOLOFILMS whose objective is training and social empowerment through the use of image using scenes of social exclusion. Her personal projects have an anthropological perspective through which she documents stories using culture as an expression of the behaviour of contemporary society, constantly questioning the role of photography as a means of expressing current dilemmas.

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