Pray for Seamen Photo-books abuse and poverty make millions

abuse and poverty make millions miserable and drive thousands to attempt to flee

Ignaz Ignaz Strebel / Jane M

all at an intersection with local realities

a fraction of a second signifies timelessness

The search for a "thoughtful lightness"

Pray for Seamen Photo-books abuse and poverty make millionsPray for Seamen is a photographic research project by Francesco Bellina investigating, through encounters with fishermen on the ground, the struggles of small scale fisheries and port communities across Trapani, Sicily, the Kerkennah Islands, Tunisia, and Jamestown, Accra, Ghana, as a result of global warming and, notably, of the exploitative action of large scale industrial fishing on the local ecosystems. Coming himself from a family of fishermen,