[You be the judge…]
Harp seal hunting. Fogo Island, Newfoundland and Labrador. 2014.
LEFT: A seal hunter looks for prey on the icy waters of the gulf of the St. Lawrence river in Quebec. RIGHT: An adult gray seal on a hook. Magdalen Islands, Quebec. 2014.
Yoanis Menge was waiting for his train in Paris when he first saw the ad. “There was this huge poster for a campaign against seal hunting,” he says. “It was a Photoshop montage of an adult seal holding a club and about to crush the head of a human baby on the ice.”
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Menge wanted to go beyond the cliches of ice floes covered in blood — the kind of images that end up in campaigns against seal hunting. He wanted to show the human side of seal hunting: the men and women who survive on the trade, often in parts of the world where fishing and hunting are the only choices available to them.
“It wasn’t easy to get access,” he says. Accustomed to being portrayed as cruel seal killers (photos usually focus on the large trails of bloods left in their wake), the hunters have shied away from journalists.
To gain their confidence, Menge trained and received his license as a bona fide seal hunter. …
More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/09/27/showing-the-human-side-of-seal-hunting/?utm_term=.71b581158a09
Exposing the Big Game 
Reblogged this on The Extinction Chronicles.
The “human” side of bashing and shooting creatures just so some egocentric coat hanger can wear a fur coat.
If that’s “human” I hereby renounce my specieship.
The human side? I don’t get it, do they think that a bad image is their problem and not the fact that they descend like demons from hell and kill this defenseless animals? Are we supposed to feel bad for the poor poor humans while they drive the sharp end of hook into the soft scull of a helpless baby animal? WTF!
You said it! The poor barbaric psycho human seal-killers have a side too!
Excuse me for using such bad words, but what a f’in asshole!
…but that’s the “human” side of sealing.
If Menge wanted to instill empathy in me for the seal hunters, he failed.
Maybe he should try showing the human side of child molesters and neo-Natzis too.
Good analogies. I’m sure there are other good ones, but my mind won’t go there right now…