In his debut book The Last Mermaid, New York-based fashion photographer Peter Ash Lee turns his lens on a waning community of female divers called the Haenyo
travelled to Jeju Island – a tropical province nicknamed the ‘Hawaii of Korea’ – to photograph a community of women divers, called the. Most of the women, who are between 60 and 80 years old, spend hours in the open sea scouring for sea urchin, turban conch, sea cucumbers and octopiKo Ryou Jin is the youngest, in her mid-30s, and comes from three generations of Haenyo.
A lot of them had these lead stones that were attached to their back to help them dive. The youngest Haenyo tried to explain to her mother and the other ladies that the lead is quite poisonous, and she’s switched to more modern weights and wetsuits, but they were all like, ‘We’ve been doing this for years, we’re not going to change now.’
“The youngest has been actively trying to recruit more Haenyo. She’s been on national television shows and leads these Haenyo experience trips where people try diving for a day. But she says the nature of the job is very difficult and laborious.
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