Vara del premio No. 2: Anònimo, Porto Laino, Manuel Casseres

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A digital chromogenic photograph capturing three young men climbing a pole for the San Basilio de Palenque’s festivity of vara de premio (prize rod). Captured against a background of a plain grey sky, the pole appears in the center of the image, with three men vertically arranged along the pole, which extends through the center of the image. The men are using one another for support, standing and kneeling on each other. The man at the top is visible from the waist down, wearing a purple t-shirt with grey sleeves, and grey shorts. The man in the middle is shirtless, wearing a necklace and dark shorts. The man at the bottom is shirtless and wearing red shorts; he's visible from only the waist up, his bent proper left leg forming a horizontal line along the photograph's bottom edge.

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