Pray for Seamen Photo-books all at an intersection with

all at an intersection with local realities

The people in the photographs are supervisors

on a perilous voyage across the Gulf of Aden

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

the absolute validity of her denunciations and reflections

Pray for Seamen Photo-books all at an intersection withPray 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,