ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 1月3日 03時28分

Photo by @Cory Richards // Captured #withgalaxy S8, produced with @samsungmobileusa // Stilt fishermen in the shallow waters of Koggala Beach, Sri Lanka.  Stilt fishing is a practice synonymous with Sri Lankan culture, but one that has all but disappeared as a means of subsistence.  Far from ancient, the method began just after the Second World War when food shortages and over fishing forced innovative locals to develop new methods to catch fish in the shallow water.  Erecting ’stilt’ platforms just off the beach allowed them to fish the reefs just out of reach by foot.  It is a tiresome practice and yields meager returns at best.  As time passed, the tradition dwindled in popularity, and was all but destroyed by the Tsunami in 2004. Only a handful of fishermen use this method to catch fish at all anymore. Paradoxically, a 'cultural tourism' industry has grown around the southern beaches where men such as these charge tourists a nominal fee to make an image. This phenomenon of cultural tourism is hardly unique. Traditions observed as ‘exotic’ or ‘beautiful', no matter how impractical, are often re-appropriated to meet a tourist demand.  The Cormorant Fisherman of China are one example, the KoiSaan Bushmen of southern Africa another. People hoping to find lost enclaves of tradition are often disappointed to find that these traditions no longer exist in their ‘authentic’ form, failing to see that it is the same zest that drove them to photograph these situations in the first place is the exact same reason that the practices themselves ONLY exist for tourist consumption anymore. Ultimately we are left with a philosophical conundrum: Is it better that the practices survive as a show or should they quietly disappear into memory? If the ‘fisherman’ can make more money pretending to fish for the lens of a traveler, who is the traveler to chastise that choice? There are no clear answers, but no shortage of opinions.

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