Portuguese corrida is probably the craziest sport in the world. Could you imagine yourself every week-end, after having had a hard week, going to an arena with twenty people like you, trying to stop a bullfight using your bare hands.

Portuguese do this. Not all of them. Actualy, less than one thousand.

They are called « forcados ». They start it as teenagers, students and never go further than their early thirties. It is not a making money business, just a big adrenaline run.

The groups joined in « Tertulias » are very famous.

« Os forcados amadores da Moita » is one of the most famous in Portugal with invitations to many corridas in Portugal and abroad.

I asked to spent a while with them, they accepted. They where very buzy because David Alan Harvey the famous Magnum-National Geographic was going to photography. I didn’t know but one of the portuguese « cabo » top leaders was a« forcado de caras » from Moita.

Called Joao Simoes he was born 1964.

There are five Joao Simoes in Portugal. Two of us born 1964.

That’s life, that’s photography…