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Pinned to a wall are rattlesnakes’ skins. Surrounding them are bloody handprints – marks of those who have skinned snakes at the annual rattlesnake round-up in Sweetwater, Texas. Each year tens of thousands of rattlesnakes are caught for this four‑day festival. Wranglers use gasoline to flush the snakes out of their winter dens. They are brought to the festival and decapitated as entertainment for festival-goers, who pay to skin them. What Jo-Anne McArthur, who shot this, found most unsettling was ‘that so many of the bloodied handprints belonged to children’. (Photojournalism category). (Photo by Jo-AnneMcArthur)
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