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Portugal Trip

My time in the Azore Islands

For a week and a half, I traveled to a few different islands off the coast of Portugal.

I shot these on the island of Ponte delgado and the Saol Jorges.

The Saol Jorges island was where I spent most of my time. 

We stayed in a very small fishing town where very little people spoke English or Spanish. As it was during the offseason for tourists, buildings and houses were boarded up. It seemed to me that as it was one of the smallest islands even then they didn't get that much tourism and i wondered if the residents of this town felt isolated. For the youth, there didn't seem that much to do and the only job prospects were farming or fishing. All during the day men stood around the cafes smoking and drinking beer making me wondering how they made a living to be able to do that all day.

So during this time, I envisioned the feeling of waiting and wondering what to do next. As I was on an island it also made me think of the mothers and wives who would wait for their loved ones away at sea. 

There was a rock at the ledge down the street from my Airbnb.

The actions that came to mind when envision was helping someone up from the ledge to join the island, or to save them from falling. 

or to pretend you were catching flight to leave for good.