I started this project with the aim of delving into the experience of the residents of Ilha do Governador, more precisely those who make their living from fishing. Knowing that the region is surrounded by Guanabara Bay, which today receives 4 tons of garbage and almost 100 million liters of sewage daily, I thought I would photograph a fisherman who makes a living from fishing in a polluted bay. However, at a certain point, in the conversation I was having with this gentleman, when he smelled the fishing net he came to say, almost to the wind, that the water smelled of mercury. From then on I understood that the protagonist was not him but the apparent pollution through the void in the network and the expression on his face.
