Fishermen of Varela

• Photographer
  Fernando Mendes

The fishermen of Varela, a small village located in the northwest of Guinea Bissau go every day to the sea in small and fragile boats built of wood to fish in the warm waters in search of food subsistence. Poor, extremely poor, they speak among themselves in French, Wolof (Senegalese Creole), flupe (or njola, local dialect) or in Guinean Creole - there are few who speak Portuguese -.