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Pig to Pork

A photo-essay by Ed Hick: the death of a pig

  • pig
  • stunner
  • quick job
  • incision
  • bleed
  • carried away
  • a bath
  • plunged
  • scrape
  • keep scraping
  • more scraping
  • singeing
  • inside out
  • pork
  • hung
  • two sides

Ed Hick is a butcher and amateur photographer. He is a member of the Sugarloaf Convivium in Co. Wicklow.