From The Bottom of The Sea

• Prize
  Gold in Editorial/Photo Essay
• Photographer
  João Coelho
• Photo Date
  2024

It all begins at the bottom of this bay, a dark world where the presence of man is not welcomed. It's in this realm, strewn with iron and sharp plates that come apart from the hulls of ships that are succumbing to rust, that a group of fearless youths defy immense risks every day to retrieve iron to sell. It's a titanic effort that only ends on the beach when they succeed in loading the heavy pieces onto bikes that take them to a zone where they are weighed