Photographer: Eduardo Lopez Moreno

Open Call: The Guardian Project

Women and men alike literally walk in the waters of the narrow sea channels of the Indian Ocean in Lamu, Kenya. This is an archipelago with several islands completely surrounded by mangroves. Although they call themselves ‘fishermen’ in fact they look more like ‘hunters’ in search of octopus that hide in small caves of the corals during very low tides. These ‘hunters’ are armed with pointy wooden sticks and water cans or sacks used to store the octopus they catch. These actions end up causing irreparable damage to the environment by destroying multi-colored and multi-forms of corals.

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