Jole 11 months ago

Una fotografia forte e cruda e drammaticamente bella! fortemente emotiva...non vorrei dirlo, ma....complimenti!

Luc Van Sever 2 years ago

Enzo
I'm glad to review this picture, I was remembering this one but I was forget ho made it,
Just great

rogier 3 years ago

Powerful. What keeps it from perfection, perhaps, is that the guy's head in the background is cut off just a bit too much. Other than that, love the tones, and the ominous hand in the foreground, dripping blood, is menacing, unforgettable even. I had to look twice to see that the hand is holding a knife, but regardless: great, raw, memorable capture.

Daria Endresen 3 years ago

I can only repeat what others have said - very strong image!

Barbara Orienti 3 years ago

Very strong, great impact!!
Bravo !
B

Dusty66 3 years ago

This photo is beautifully heartbreaking. You should not have to apologize for showing people how their food gets to their dinner table. This is just a great photo on so many levels. The clarity of the blood dripping from the knife in the man's hand, with the pig struggling for it's life, while people sit idly in the background, only watching. Bravo on this capture!

Interesting fact: pigs are as intelligent as a three-year old human - something which I feel only adds to the depth of emotion in this shot.

It's difficult for me to look at, but I applaud you for such a great job on this one!

Jennifer S 3 years ago

I do find this image distrubing...however, I know this is real life. If I can ask a question about the photograph? Is that the pig's heart that the butcher is holding? I agree with Codrin...this is human nature and still is part of our lives. However distrubing it may be, it's real.

Paul van Geldrop 3 years ago

A great capture of a brutal moment. Like Codrin said, this was part of every human life not so long ago. These days we tend to close our eyes and put this scene in a sterile environment where none has to witness this scene but where it takes place on a huge scale. At least the people on the picture know what it takes to get pork meat on table.

Codrin Lupei 3 years ago

Strong one, Enzo, really well captured, well, without having any wish to talk a lot about this...I really believe that slowly we're starting to be just too much politicaly corect till a point where we'll be absolutely sterile and we're trying to forgett centuries of history and in fact the whole human nature. I'm not saying that this is the best thing that could be seen or done...but it's or was (till not very long ago...) part of our lifes. Great work Enzo!
all the best
Codrin

Kevin Ng 3 years ago

Brutally raw - but so so very good - well done!

Andre du Plessis 3 years ago

Hi Enzo. This picture is a fantastic example of light oh! so well used. Great great vision here.
The composition really wakes one up, and is well constructed, but without the light it would not have had that
specialness. PS please tell me at what focal lenght this was shot, and did you crop quite a bit? If so - your boldness in
sectioning off the one foot is telling!

Alexander Spernes 3 years ago

Wow, this is strong, and such a good photo!

Balazs Pataki 3 years ago

First I thought it's Hungary, where the tradition of pig slaughter is still very much alive in the villages. It's brutal, but poor piggy delivers enough meat for the rest of the year, and virtually every little bit of the animal is used in some way. Many photographers try to make something artistic out of this ritual but I have rarely seen such a strong image - it's alive, a real decisive moment capture. (Especially decisive for the pig.) A great story well told. Buon appetito! :)

Ivan Radic 3 years ago

whoa! woted for it but I was pretty sure that it will never ever be published. now I'm sure that I don't know anything about this site. the photo is different from the others, a lot! the light penetrating throug the sleave of the butcher is what I look at because the pig is, well, kinda falling. very good photo.

Abel Tonkens 3 years ago

Cruel shot Enzo. Wich ritual is this? and from wich country? Every culture has his own i believe. What ever your thoughts are about this one, it's documantary. It blows some minds and that's what it is for. Superb story by the chosen sharpnes and composition. I don't like this picture by the story but as a picture it's very strong. I voted 'for' in screening.........................But it's not in my list of favourites.

Regards,
Abel

Fabio Giannelli 3 years ago

... so disturbing by itself, but the compo made it even more disturbing, if possible.....unbeliavably cruel and real. It's a punch on the stomach that makes me think a lot. A great documentary shot. Full stop.

Stefano Corso 3 years ago

Very disturbing. I don't understand the sense to report it photographically without a position related to this. It is something that could be documented but in a right contest and with something else than a simply "event".

Lars Klottrup 3 years ago

It's not offensive, it's illegal to slaughter animals this way - that's the problem: Are you as a photographer and witness not obliged to report it to the authorities?

Bob Patefield 3 years ago

Show it like it is. Meat is murder! Most only see the neatly packaged fillet on the supermarket shelf. Few would eat meat if they had to do this themselves. At the Walls sausage factory they run the pigs into a huge metal dish, spray them with water and then electrocute them to death. I despair at being a human being sometimes : (