Feb 21, 2017
Thomas Prior - Bomba
“Every February in the Mexican town of San Juan de la Vega, its people gather together to commemorate a four-century-old battle that occurred between the town’s namesake and the area’s landowners.The traditional celebrations see the townspeople gather on an empty football pitch to watch on as hundreds of local men strap homemade potassium chlorate fertiliser-based explosives to the heads of sledgehammers and slam them against the lengths of steel rail. Photographer Thomas Prior travelled to the small town to capture the festival and the bizarrely violent activity.” It’s Nice That
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