THE BURIAL OF THE SARDINE

• Prize
• Photographer
  Guillermo Gutierrez, Peru

The "Burial of the Sardine" is a centuries old annual Spanish
ceremony celebrating the end of the carnival, during Ash
Wednesday. The satirical ceremony simulates a burial procession
of a sardine, which gets solemnly paraded around the city streets
in a real or cardboard coffin. The funeral procession culminates
with the burning of the symbolic figure in a big fire surrounded by
the followers, is a symbolic burial of the past to allow society to
be reborn, transformed and with new vigour.
This popular manifestation was first captured for posterity and
made famous by Spanish painter Francisco de Goya in an oil
painting of the same name, “El Entierro de la Sardina,” dated
between 1812 and 1819.

• Awards
  2014 Documentary Winner of the HUMANITY PHOTO AWARDS (HPA) for the story ” Burial of the Sardine “ Third Prize_PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE, PARIS (Px3) _Press Travel/Tourism for the story ”Burial of the Sardine “ Honorable Mention _PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE, PARIS (Px3) _Press Travel/Tourism for the story “Lord of the Miracles” 2010 Finalist_ Not to gender Violence_ Casa Encendida Madrid Competition_Spain Finalist_ I Photography Competition Madrid Metro_Spain