Horseback Shrimp Fishermen

Belgium

Service: documentary photography

Men & Horses - Belgium

Horseback shrimp fisher

For more than 500 years, shrimp fishing from horseback has been a tradition along the coast of Northern France and Belgium. Today the tradition is still alive, but is only practiced by a few fishermen on the Belgian coast and is now protected by Unesco.

As a part of my “Men & Horses” project, I went down to Belgium to photograph those beautiful Belgian draft horses with their fishermen.

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