Between land and sea


  • Photographer
    Gilles Nicolet
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2016/2017

The balmy air and the bountiful waters of the Swahili coast have attracted traders and provided for fishermen, for hundreds of years.The communities live off the bounties of the sea - harvests of shark, shrimp and seaweed - but also off a land of sand and petrified coral bearing groves of coconut and coastal forests. These natural resources have provided a self-sustained lifestyle to the communities for centuries. Along the bejewelled coast, scenes of toil and hard work are common. A walk along these shores awakens a nostalgia, dormant in modern human memory. At dawn, throngs of fishmongers wade neck-deep in the ocean flats as the fishermen return from a night at sea, evoking the feeling of being in a fresco. Men, their bodies gleaming in the sun, sort through massive heaps of coconuts, while a young man takes his day’s catch back home.

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