At one beach near Galle, Sri Lanka, rows of men were lined up pulling by hand on a giant seine net that had been set out in the bay. Dozens of them were needed to haul it, and it extended so far out that men had to support the net at its sagging points to keep it from dragging too much in the surf. I took a picture of a man doing just that, pausing in his hard work for a moment to look out at the slowly gathering net, hoping that it held a lot of fish. There wasn’t much colour in the shot to begin with, and I liked mostly the weary man’s pose and the play of the curve of the net and waves, so I went with black and white.