Steal Your Soul

Kochi, India, 2009

It’s the first time that I see so many tourists in India. Fake fishermen fake to catch fish and tell the tourists that they can also fake to catch it. In the meanwhile the fisherman takes a photo of the tourist (that’s a wonderful inversion of roles, so sorry that I didn’t take a picture of it) and everyone’s happy, until the tourist discovers that he might leave a donation for the fake fishermen.

I climbed on a tiny bamboo structure to reach a platform that was a little bit more off the coast. It took me some time, because I was afraid to fall and lose my camera, but the end I did it, thus allowing me to become a “level 2 tourist”.