AMA — women of the sea 
2024

In this photo essay, we meet Masae and her community of Japan’s Ama free divers whose century-old tradition is now threatened by “isoyake” - the dying of the underwater seaweed bed. The Ama are fighting to protect their precious abalone, but will Mie’s Ama culture and the ocean world survive the looming threat caused climate change?










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