TITLE: KOVALAM FISHERMEN

Located 16 km north of Trivandrum, Kovalam, from a simple fishing village, has become one of the most important travel destinations in India for its beaches that stretch for 17 km of coast and form a huge sheltered rocky promontory from the currents of the Arabian Sea.

Apart from the tourist shops and restaurants that line beach front property, fishing is the most lucrative industry that the majority of locals take advantage of.
There is no high tech fishing gear that these people use. In fact, their tools and techniques seem to mirror a way of life that has remained intact for generations.

They leave at night and the next morning, once they are back on land, they start pulling in their fishing nets that had been deposited far out in the ocean. This arduous process continued for more than three hours.

I wanted to document this lifestyle to try to transmit the great willpower and the extreme courage of these fishermen who still use their only physical strength even today.

AUTHOR: Lorenz Berna ITALY

I'm an Italian born Travel and landscape Photographer based in Florence, Italy.
I love to photograph People and Landscapes during my travels so my body of work rotate all around this two categories.
I've lived in Asia for a total of 3 years between India,Nepal and Cambodia. I love the south Asia and i feel deeply connected with the ancient wisdom that influenced the continent.
My story with photography began during a road trip in Mexico in 2006.
I was in the magic town of Real De Catorce when I saw two photographers full of enthusiasm carry their gear and leaving horseback before sunrise in search of beauty and adventure!
That vision was so powerful inside me that with my cheap compact camera I began to document my entire journey in a more "conscious" way. It was the beginning of a new way of seeing the world around me.
From that moment i started to look at the world differently and i realized that being an attentive observer of humans life and nature can bring us a deep understanding of life, serenity and harmony. Taking pictures around the world has always helped me to live a life full of wanders and surprise.
Together with my wife we decide to live a nomadic life style, minimize our possessions and try to be as much as we can free. < BACK TO GALLERY