Sunset on Maldives


  • Photographer
    Raffaele Tuzio
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    Raffaele Tuzio
  • Date of Photograph
    March 2015

The Maldives archipelago is known as a tourist paradise of pristine marine beauty and golden sunsets. The other side of the luxury tourism is the sunset of environmental balance and the specter of the disappearance of the atolls due to high water produced by climate change. In this context lives a population, mostly Muslims, of approximately 300,000 inhabitants (one third in the capital alone) dispersed in 26 atolls, only partly inhabited. The development of tourism has increased the environmental risk and the coastal erosion, also changing the economy and way of life, once based primarily on fishing. More than 50% of the population is now employed in luxury resorts and tourism-related activities. With this series of images I have tried to show the atmosphere of loneliness and insecurity that prevails in these places despite the splendor of nature that surrounds the islands. The images were taken in the islands of Lhaviyani Atoll.

Story

The Maldives archipelago is known as a tourist paradise of
pristine marine beauty and
golden sunsets. The other side of the luxury tourism is the
sunset of
environmental balance and the specter of the disappearance of
the atolls due to
high water produced by climate change. In this context lives a
population, mostly Muslims, of approximately 300,000
inhabitants (one
third in the capital alone) dispersed in 26 atolls, only partly
inhabited. The
development of tourism has increased the environmental risk
and the
coastal erosion, also changing the economy and way of life,
once based
primarily on fishing. More than 50% of the population is now
employed in
luxury resorts and tourism-related activities. With this series of
images I have
tried to show the atmosphere of loneliness and insecurity that
prevails
in these places despite the splendor of nature that surrounds
the islands.
The images were taken in the islands of Lhaviyani Atoll.

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