thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 2月4日 05時13分

Photo by @salvarezphoto | words by @neilshea13 — Who were the early explorers? What did they believe, how far did they go? Imagine you were among the first-comers to Madagascar, a thousand or more years ago, from Borneo or East Africa. You waded ashore, carrying—what? Clothing, a net, a spear? Did you simply wash up empty-handed and gasping after a storm? You first people came a long way and who knows your reasons. You were fishermen blown off course, or voyagers following currents, studying clouds. Or you left home as refugees, hurrying to your rafts ahead of war. // In any case you survived the crossing and upon arrival found nothing familiar. Your mind was full of landscapes you’d left behind—villages, rivers, graves, sacred trees. You dreamed of open seas, certain fair winds, and nights that only sailors know, bright with southern constellations. But none of those memories could help you. Here were forests full of strangeness. Giant lemurs roamed the canopy, pygmy hippos rolled in the streams. A flightless bird 10 feet tall; a fierce predator half puma, half mongoose; reptiles and insects in every color. Here was a world waiting for names. // Step by step you crossed the fresh country and described each feature before destroying it. Most of those animals are gone now, along with most of the forests, but that is another story. Eventually, in the west you reached this place, one of God’s mysteries, and it stopped you. The dark stones could not be cleared. The great trees could not be felled. No fire could burn it down. So you named it Tsingy, meaning Where One Cannot Walk Barefoot, and then you turned away.
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When the fieldwork is finished, one form of exploration ends and another begins. Join us over the next week as we share stories from our work in Madagascar’s Tsingy de Bemaraha, and consider how the landscapes, animals, and ideas drew us in and continue to inspire. To see more of our documentary work for @ナショナルジオグラフィック, check in @salvarezphoto and @neilshea13.
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