“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. Known as haenyeo, 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 tewak, about the size of a basketball, sits at the surface of the water with a net hanging beneath it to collect the harvest. Some use a sharp tool to dig conch, abalone, and other creatures from the crevices on the seafloor. … “For me, the photos of the haenyeo reflect and overlap with the images I have of my mother and grandmother,” Kim says. “They are shown exactly as they are, tired and breathless. But, at the same time, they embody incredible mental and physical stamina, as the work itself is so dangerous; every day they cross the fine line between life and death. I wanted to capture this extreme duality of the women: their utmost strength combined with human fragility.” ”
Idk if its bc i woke up up from a migraine nap watched a few hours of tv and then spent a long shower with my thoughts but I’ve decided that my gf who is always telling me how great and beautiful i am doesn’t really “get” me and only loves me bc I’m semihot and when it comes down to it i am an unpleasant and unkind person even to myself and the only reason anyone tolerates me is that im young amd skinny…. that’s just what being alive is like sometimes tho if i was happy and healthy and nice i would be op and god would have to destroy reality and start over
Women’s tattoos are distinguished by their sentimental nature. Lesbian relationships are common in female prisons; acronyms and phrases declaring undying love are popular. The text at the top reads: ‘If you want to grab grief - fall in love with me!’ and below ‘Let my love lie on your life like a tombstone’.
