I have watched fishermen all over the world. Whether with line, rod, basket, or net, the requirements of the job are the same: focus, patience and a solitary nature that feels bone deep.
The evening and dawn hours are their friend; the invisible world beneath the water’s surface is fathomable only to them.
I believe that an Inlay Lake fisherman would have more to share with a Chilean angler than with his compatriot, the rice farmer of the Irawaddy Delta.
Communities of knowledge and passion, these are the invisible threads that create the global human web.
Photograph: Jeremy Lindblad