Area in which the hawks training takes place. Pesco Sannita, Benevento, Italy, 2009.
Area in which the hawks training takes place. Pesco Sannita, Benevento, Italy, 2009.
Trainer and his hawk, Biancofiore, shadows on the mold. Pesco Sannita, Benevento, Italy, 2009.
Trainer and his hawk, Biancofiore, shadows on the mold. Pesco Sannita, Benevento, Italy, 2009.
Hawk Biancofiore and its trainer like a Minotaur. Pesco Sannita, Benevento, Italy, 2009.
Hawk Biancofiore and its trainer like a Minotaur. Pesco Sannita, Benevento, Italy, 2009.
Hawk trainer is using a direction finder to call back the animal. Pesco Sannita, Benevento, Italy, 2009
Hawk trainer is using a direction finder to call back the animal. Pesco Sannita, Benevento, Italy, 2009
Silhouette trainer and his hawk, Biancofiore, during the training. Pesco Sannita, Benevento, Italy, 2009.
Silhouette trainer and his hawk, Biancofiore, during the training. Pesco Sannita, Benevento, Italy, 2009.
Hawk Biancofiore is chasing another bird during the training. Pesco Sannita, Benevento, Italy, 2009.
Hawk Biancofiore is chasing another bird during the training. Pesco Sannita, Benevento, Italy, 2009.
Cowboys are waiting for the beginning of Road Show. Taburno plain, Benevento, Italy, 2010.
Cowboys are waiting for the beginning of Road Show. Taburno plain, Benevento, Italy, 2010.
Cowboys are drilling horses before the Road Show. Taburno plain, Benevento, Italy, 2010.
Cowboys are drilling horses before the Road Show. Taburno plain, Benevento, Italy, 2010.
“La Dormiente” Association cowboys are drilling their horses, before the Road Show. Taburno plain, Benevento, Italy, 2010.
“La Dormiente” Association cowboys are drilling their horses, before the Road Show. Taburno plain, Benevento, Italy, 2010.
A cowboy is observing the arena before the Road Show rodeo. Taburno plain, Benevento, Italy, 2010.
A cowboy is observing the arena before the Road Show rodeo. Taburno plain, Benevento, Italy, 2010.
Enclosured cows are waiting for the Road Show rodeo. Taburno plain, Benevento, Italy, 2010.
Enclosured cows are waiting for the Road Show rodeo. Taburno plain, Benevento, Italy, 2010.
Spectators outside the arena are watching the horses training. Taburno plain, Benevento, Italy, 2010.
Spectators outside the arena are watching the horses training. Taburno plain, Benevento, Italy, 2010.
A horse, seen from the arena iron bars. Taburno plain, Benevento, Italy, 2010.
A horse, seen from the arena iron bars. Taburno plain, Benevento, Italy, 2010.
Sitting cowboys are waiting for the beginning of the Road Show rodeo. Taburno plain, Benevento, Italy, 2010.
Sitting cowboys are waiting for the beginning of the Road Show rodeo. Taburno plain, Benevento, Italy, 2010.
Competitors before the Road Show rodeo. Taburno plain, Benevento, Italy, 2010.
Competitors before the Road Show rodeo. Taburno plain, Benevento, Italy, 2010.
Cowboy competiror shadow on arena sand, during the Road Show rodeo. Taburno plain, Benevento, Italy, 2010.
Cowboy competiror shadow on arena sand, during the Road Show rodeo. Taburno plain, Benevento, Italy, 2010.
Cowboy competiror shadow on arena sand at the end of rodeo. Taburno plain, Benevento, Italy, 2010.
Cowboy competiror shadow on arena sand at the end of rodeo. Taburno plain, Benevento, Italy, 2010.
Area born to permit the interaction between horses and kids. Taburno plain, Benevento, Italy, 2010.
Area born to permit the interaction between horses and kids. Taburno plain, Benevento, Italy, 2010.
Group of cowboys at the end of competition. Taburno plain, Benevento, Italy, 2010.
Group of cowboys at the end of competition. Taburno plain, Benevento, Italy, 2010.

Manimal

“Manimal” is a reflection about relationship between man and animal. The word “animal” derives from Latin “animal-animalis” which alludes to the faculties of each animal being to possess  soul. The development of capitalism, based on the concept according to which everything is a product with a price, has contributed to the abandonment of any symbolic and spiritual approach to nature, humans and animals. Various ancient mythological beliefs conceive animal like deity or privileged being of connection to God, bearer of adversities or fortune; the cancellation of myths and traditions by the European bloody colonizers in Africa and South America, atheism, distorted interpretations of religious texts to political and economic aims, the birth of capitalism and the gradual advance of the cultural massification thank to the expansion of globalization has determined the process according to which animal can be treated like object. Does this contemporary man behaviour depend on a wrong cultural “evolution” (if the today’s involution can called “evolution” yet) or does it exist an innate tendence or a brotherhood feeling of man to conceive animal as a being who, while provided of soul, must be respected and helped? This reportage is narrating the experience of a hawk trainer and about a rodeo during an event, the Road Show, in which Italian cowboys on horses must capture as cows as possible with a jest.