Australian photojournalist Paul Jones spent months on a remote Indonesian island, living in a village without electricity or running water, to learn about whale hunters and their subsistence lifestyle.
abc.net.au/news/whale-hunters-lamalera-indonesia-photojournalist-paul-jones/101850324When photojournalist Paul Jones first travelled to a little-known island in Eastern Indonesia to document locals' subsistence lifestyle and, in particular, their practice of harpooning whales from small boats, he was initially after the mythical perfect photo.
"You fly into Bali, Denpasar, then you catch a small plane to Flores, and then it's a journey of small buses, motorbikes, ferries, and motorbikes again," said Mr Jones, a former international news photographer, from Wollongong in New South Wales.And once you get there life is fairly basic. "Subsistence whaling is the main economy around the village, so everyone would have something to do with it."
What Mr Jones also couldn't shy away from was the inherent dangers involved, as all too often the practice led to injury or even death for the fishermen."Whales, their main defence is the flukes, so the tail of the whale. "Depending on how big the whale is, it could last for a week, it could last for a month, and also the whale meat that is dried out is used for barter," Mr Jones said.
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