For hundreds of years, women in the South Korean island province of Jeju have made their living harvesting seafood by hand from the ocean floor.
, or sea women, they use no breathing equipment, although a typical dive might last around two minutes and take them as deep as ten metres underwater. Wearing old-fashioned headlight-shaped scuba masks, most dive with lead weights strapped around their waists to help them sink faster. A round flotation device called a, about the size of a basketball, sits at the surface of the water with a net hanging beneath it to collect the harvest.
The photographer Hyung S. Kim regularly went to Jeju between 2012 and 2014 in order to photograph the. He set up a plain white backdrop near the shore, and would persuade divers to have their pictures taken as they emerged from the water, usually after five or six hours of work. “This was a very difficult process,” Kim says. “They were not used to being photographed, especially against an artificially created background, so they would often avoid me entirely.
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