Inferno

The series that won First Prize at Pressfoto 2007, Poland.

Elzbieta Piekacz’s award winning and harrowing photo-documentary of the street corner slaughterhouses of China, where domestic dogs are as common as pigs and goats delivered up to the butcher’s knife.

'THE FIRST touch of that morning, that freezing cold and rays of light coming through the holes in the roof. The rays illuminating women who were putting fluttering hens with cut throats to boiling water. The rays falling onto trembling, naked body of a white rabbit. Still alive. A man was just ripping its fur off. They were glancing off knives, narrower by another sunrise. Is this dog still there; is it in those cages that are brought every day at sunrise? That white dog with eyes squinted with sadness…'

Elzbieta Piekacz

Elzbieta Piekacz

Inferno Click an image to enlarge



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Inferno

The series that won First Prize at Pressfoto 2007, Poland.Elzbieta Piekacz’s award winning and harrowing photo-documentary of the street corner slaughterhouses of China, where domestic dogs are as common as pigs and goats delivered up to the butcher’s knife.

The series that won First Prize at Pressfoto 2007, Poland.

Elzbieta Piekacz’s award winning and harrowing photo-documentary of the street corner slaughterhouses of China, where domestic dogs are as common as pigs and goats delivered up to the butcher’s knife.