A film by Christian Lajoumard – 26′
It’s in the rough waters of the Magdalen Islands that Dakar fishermen go to harvest mussels, oysters and barnacles. Working in teams of two or three divers, freediving to depths of no more than ten metres, they bring in around twenty kilos of shellfish every day.
A film by Christian Lajoumard – 30′
On the island of Phu Quoc, in Vietnam, men, connected to a thin pipe, a “thread of life” that allows them to breathe, hunt fish and seafood in the blue depths.
A film by Christian Lajoumard – 30′
In the warm waters of the Gulf of Siam, at nightfall, men go fishing for squid and fish attracted by the lights of their improbable boats.
A film by Christian Lajoumard – 26′
On the island of Santo Antao, in Cape Verde, longline fishing (a boat, a wire, a hook) is practiced in an artisanal way… You only take what is necessary to feed yourself.
A film by Christian Lajoumard – 26′
On the Blue Coast, between Martigues and Marseille, small-scale traditional fishing is mainly carried out with trammel nets. Joseph and Mohamed set and pull their nets daily. The intense blue of the Mediterranean as a nourishing land.
A film by Christian Lajoumard – 26′
Off the coast of Dakar, the fishermen of Soumbedioune, a small district of the Senegalese capital, practice their trade between the blue of the sky and the ocean.
A film by Christian Lajoumard – 26′
Mbour is one of the major fishing ports of the Senegalese coast. The pirogues embark there every day their contingent of men. Young and old, they go out, up to fifty kilometers offshore, to capture in large nets the tons of sardines that will feed the whole country.
