Mending Nets - Nets stretch open beneath a watercolor sky, the labor yet to begin.

Mending Nets - A woman repairs a torn fishing net, her hands tracing the rhythms of tradition with quiet percision.

Mending Nets - Held taut between boats, the net gleams like thread spun from light. Between two silhouettes, labor glows.
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Mending Nets - At sunrise, a quiet arc of labor opens the day. With a single throw, the fisherman begins—retrieving what the sea offers, as the rhythm of shore life awakens.

Mending Nets - As the sun rises, boats return bearing the night's harvest and broken nets. Soon, the work of women will begin—binding sea to shore with each repair.

Mending Nets

The Unseen Hands of the Sea

In costal Vietnam, the rhythm of fishing life is a shared responsibility. While the men cast out to sea, it is the women who restore what’s frayed - knot by knot, thread by thread. This series honors the quiet duality of labor and care, of leaving and returning, of holding what the water wears down.

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