Photographic portraits

To communicate our way ... our style ... it explains our identity, it explains who we are ... our past and where we're heading. Right now it's important to know where we're heading.

We know our future at times may not look good, but I think we have a very positive future ahead of us.

We've got a good generation of people in place. Those that have heard the stories, those who have begun to tell them are now leading the way.

Constance Saveka
Moa Island

When the culture pearl close down, the industry close down too. Now today trochus price pretty low ... but it's worth money. But no one work. At that time ... if you work you had money if you no work, your family hungry.

We get hard time ... hard but good time ... What I been teach from my dad I still carry on ... I teach my children. But they don't take after me. They like everything with machine ...

It's good island ... has good soil ... I work but my back get weak ... always pain. Still go diving for crayfish ... but hard to climb inside the dinghy. I like to make a ladder ... like we have on the pearling lugger.

Sam Kris
Moa Island