Erik Grimland, Bushland, Amarillo, Texas. Unloading the zebras trophy his daughter killed din South Africa two years ago.
J-Bar-J ranch, Clarendon, Texas. Axis deer delivery in J-Bar-J ranch before the species hunting season.
Bushland, Texas. Police blocking the road as a fire threatens Amarillo's suburbs. The fire will destroy hectares and kill cattle.
Erik Grimland, Bushland, Amarillo, Texas. Erik and his daughter are putting their stuffed lion in the home's trophy room. Erik killed 'his' lion two years back in South Africa. The hunting safari cost him 70 000 dollars.
Erik Grimland, Rockin G Ranch, Turkey, Texas. Erik Grimland and Wade are discussing feed for the 250 species in the high fence area. Those new cow-boys never leave their trucks.
Billy Bellflower, Rocking G ranch, Turkey, Texas. Billy learns how to use the shotgun before his first hunt. He is 16.
Tad Honeycutt, Wildlife Partners, Mountain Home, Texas. Tad is trying to separate a male oryx from its family in the facility's barn for translocation to a hunting ranch.
Erik Grimland, Bushland, Amarillo, Texas. Erik and his daughter are putting their stuffed lion in the home's trophy room. Erik killed 'his' lion two years back in South Africa. The hunting safari cost him 70 000 dollars.
Brad Hempkins, Rockin G ranch, Turkey, Texas. Brad Hempkins and his automatic rifle while hunting in the high fence area.
Brad Hempkins, Rockin G ranch, Turkey, Texas. Brad Hempkins checking if the Angora goat he just shot is dead.
Rockin G ranch, Turkey, Texas. Skinned Angora goat in the main barn.
Top of Texas taxidermy shop, Amarillo, Texas. Trophy mount of a deer.
Rockin G ranch, Turkey, Texas. Going back from hunting in the late afternoon in autumn at the Rocking G ranch.
Brad Hempkins, Rockin G ranch, Turkey, Texas. Brad Hempkins getting settled in a blind in early morning to hunt white tail deer.
Bushland, Amarillo, Texas. Near the Bellflower's ranch, fire has been threatening cattle. Police is blocking access.
Erik Grimland, Bushland, Amarillo, Texas. Erik and his daughter are putting their stuffed lion in the home's trophy room. Erik killed 'his' lion two years back in South Africa. The hunting safari cost him 70 000 dollars.
Canyon, Texas. Sydney Grimland getting out of the cow sorting competition with her horse.
Wildlife Partners, Mountain Home, Texas. A zebra is waiting in the barn to be translocated. Zebra hunt costs $3.000 in Texas but is only popular with women.
Omar Avila and Mat, J-Bar-J ranch, Clarendon, Texas. Omar Avila and Matt are two US army vets. There were invited to hunt for a week-end at the J-Bar-J ranch. They both lost legs in combat.
J-Bar-J ranch, Clarendon, Texas. Omar Avila is hunting buffalo with bow and arrow.
J-Bar-J ranch, Clarendon, Texas. After killing the oryx, the animal must be transported to be skinned. The skin and head will become Matt's trophy.
J-Bar-J ranch, Clarendon, Texas. Sugar Moon. Three-days fire is threatening the ranch.
J-Bar-J ranch, Clarendon, Texas. Matt Hicks and his family serving game meat dinner at the ranch.
Bushland, Amarillo, Texas. Erik Grimland's trophy room.
Rockin G ranch, Turkey, Texas. Billy Bellflower and his future trophy.
Oryx down, J-Bar-J ranch, Amarillo, Texas Oryx down, after the storm, Matt the vet decided on with stag he wanted. An oryx hunt costs $5.000 in Texas. Matt did not pay this time as he was invited.
Shooting range, Amarillo, Texas Stand de tir d'Amarillo, Texas
Sugar Moon
– To have and To Hold
On the high plains of the Texas Panhandle, the wind blows continuously. Immensity is a magnifying glass. There, we take ownership of nature and air, everything has a price and African animals are hunted in ranches with high fences. The exotic game industry generates approximately 1 billion dollars annually in the US. Putting a commercial value on animals is concurrently a blessing and a curse. It has generated debates and a genuine public opinion war between hunters and what they call ‘antis’. When they are accused of killing protected species on american soil, ranchers answer that they are the last contributors to conservation as some of the species they breed have almost disappeared in their natural habitat. Sugar Moon is the schizophrenic story of the exotic trophy hunting industry. Deep in the southern gun culture, it also draws an intimate and crude portrait of Trump's America.