Startling photographs win water pictures competitors

Shrimp fisher Stefaan, ably assisted by his horse Dina, wades deep into the summer season waters of the North Sea off Oostduinkerke in Belgium. The use of funnel-shaped nets and enormous Belgian draft horses to fish dates again centuries. This hanging shot by German photographer Kristina Steiner is a part of a set of her photographs that received first prize in a contest on the theme of humanity’s connection to water, organised by UNESCO and non-profit organisation Onewater.

More than 8000 photographs had been submitted by 796 photographers from 114 nations to the Walk of Water photograph story competitors, that includes every thing from sea rescue operations and the devastating actuality of Amazonian droughts to the traditions of salt extraction in Vietnam.

The youth award went to Gastón Zilberman for his photograph story on the Qotzuñi individuals and the disappearance of Bolivia’s second-largest lake. In the shot above, Florencio, Pablo, Cipriana and Félix Mauricio sit in a ship stranded on the salty desert that was as soon as Lake Poopó. The Qotzuñi have turned to crafts for survival now that their ancestral fishing grounds have vanished as a result of local weather change.

Winning the advantage prize was Jaime Gómez’s photograph story about South Korea’s haenyeo, or sea ladies. In this picture, considered one of these divers is making ready to plunge beneath the floor searching for mussels, persevering with the centuries-old South Korean custom that calls for robust breath management and the flexibility to navigate highly effective currents.

Tianxiao Wang’s picture from Indonesia exhibits 16-year-old Emen, who practises conventional whaling strategies alone each afternoon, leaping off the rocks into the ocean. “Becoming a whale hunter,” mentioned Emen, in an announcement in regards to the awards, “is not about proving our skills to others. It is about carrying the weight of tradition – piercing through the modern world’s misconceptions with a harpoon.” Wang’s photograph story took second place within the youth part of the prize’s South-East Asia class.

Finally, Solmaz Daryani’s picture from the Iranian metropolis of Sharafkhaneh exhibits a former port on Lake Urmia – at one time the most important lake within the Middle East. Taken in 2017, it exhibits picket mooring poles as soon as used to tie up boats. Even at the moment, the lake had shrunk to 10 per cent of its former dimension as a result of drought, damming and groundwater extraction. Daryani was awarded a advantage prize within the international class for the prize.

 

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