Angelika Hala Almost unbearable to look at: The beautiful blue of the ocean, the light on the creatures bound for death. The photograph a admonition against human wastefulness.
Captured in October 2024 in Indonesia, this image shows a local fisherman’s net where three small sharks were caught as bycatch. Attracted by anchovies, the main catch, a whale shark already injured (most probably by a boat propeller) approached but avoided contact. With 100 million sharks killed annually, mostly for fins or bycatch, this whale shark faces its own a grim future—brutally killed for human luxury, ignoring the catastrophic impact on our oceans and the survival of humanity.