I start by emphasizing that this work on the Marnoto salt extraction has a deep personal resonance since it portrays an activity that most likely my ancestors had. Having Marnoto as the surname of my family, all of my paternal side comes from Ilhavo, a village very close to Aveiro, having lived very closely since [...]

It all began in November 2005 when I read an article concerning rising sea levels and their effect on the low level, one metre high, coastline of the islands that make up the Carteret Atoll in the South Pacific. It sounded newsworthy, topical and tropical. Even though I knew little of how to get there [...]

Images taken whilst spending 24 hours with a group of commercial pole fishermen in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Addu Atoll in the Maldives. Commercial fishing in the Maldives is done by catching small bait fish with nets off the side of fishing dhonis at night. With the bait fish caught, the fishing [...]

Piaski village in Poland, located by the Baltic sea. At the end of the road, just by the Russian border. In summer it’s full of tourists, with their plastic toys, smell of sun lotions and fried chips. Out of season it gets empty, back to the normal rhythm, like a hundred years ago. And it’s still [...]

 
The Indonesian whale hunter village, Lamalera Rain mostly exists in the prayers of Christian people of Lamalera. The rocky mountains surrounding the village where a thousand people live ; is not suitable for breeding animals; no vegetables and fruits can survive in the bare, burnt-out ground. There is only the sea, and its fruits to [...]