Festive Fighting

• Prize
  Gold in Events/Sport, 2nd Place winner in Events
• Photographer
  Michael Bednar
• Agency / Studio
  Michael Bednar Photography
• Photo Date
  December 2023

Each year on Christmas Day in the Chumbivilcas province of Peru community members come together to celebrate and to fight. The event is known as Takanakuy which translates from Quechua as ‘To Hit Each Other’. The remote region in the southern Andes has very few police officers. To maintain a semblance of peace and order community members agree to refrain from quarrelling and resolve their conflicts once a year on December 25th with festive fighting.