Festival d'Abrivado - Limited Edition of 10 Photograph

“Photography to me is the need to tell a story about a place. I want to convey the essence of a place, so to bring the viewer right there, to make him smell it’s fragrances, hear the noises and experience sensations.” Camargue is a land of radical traditions and every seasons has festivals, recurrences, events, often related to horse which is the symbol of this part of France. Every year on November 10th and 11th gathers more than 2000 “guardians “ ( cowboys) and 1000 horses from all Provence to partecipate at Festival of Abrivado. The festival is a commemoration of the leading of bulls from establishment to the arena, where the traditional course Camarguaise, a kind of corrida, used to take place and the only one who risk life is the man. Nowadays bulls are take to the arena by vans. Teams of ‘gardians’ (Abrivado) put their savour fare to the test by leading a group of bulls to a 6km route on the beach of Saintes Maries de la Mere. The most difficult part for the gardians is to keep the bulls inside the abrivados, while jammers try to frighten the horses with drapes and firecrackers intentionally to get lost the bulls.