THE BURIAL OF THE SARDINE

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.

Born in Lima-Peru, studied architecture, working in different architectural studios around Peru and Spain. Always practiced photography as a passion and as a pursuit of knowledge. Participant in many workshops of analogical and digital photography and decided to work eventually as an assistant photographer for a photo studio for portraits for other photographers. Actually works by himself with everything involved with design and photography. Recently has finished a workshop in photojournalism in Madrid, and is progressively entering the world of reporting through photography, as a way to show what is happening around the world nowadays. Has published photographs in various web pages, books of photography, and been finalist in various photographic competitions.