Lusitano: Noble, Courageous, Eternal

Veritas Editions is the 2022 winner of the prestigious Lucie Award for Book Publisher of the Year by the Lucie Foundation. Winner of Bronze Medal in the 2019 IPPY Independent Publisher Book Awards, for the Animals category, chosen from over 4,500 entries overall. Keron tells her story of meeting, photographing, and ultimately living in the land of her beloved Lusitano horse. Includes four essays—one at each chapter beginning, and an index of images providing the names of all the horses, riders if depicted, and the date and location the photographs were made. An excerpt from the Introduction by Keron Psillas Oliveira: “Photographically I felt that I began to show the Lusitano in their environment and in a way that transcends time, discipline, or breeding. In other words, despite my tremendous respect for the breeding programs of Senhors Braga, Freire, Veiga, Torres, and so many others, I want my photographs to represent the eternal qualities that emanate from the horses. For these hors