elisabetta riccio - pole-pole Zanzibar - Group of girls watching the heads of the village family catch a lot of fish

Pole pole

JAMBIANI, 2019.

A visual storytelling of the Zanzibar Island.

The tourism industry is rapidly developing, both in the surroundings of Stone Town and on the east coast of the island, and some villages, such as that of Jambiani, have acquired great international visibility in recent years. Despite this, this small fishing village, like most of the villages on the island, is still very backward. Many houses are still without electricity and water, many also without flooring and furnishings.

elisabetta riccio - In jambiani the family heads of the village catch a lot of fish
elisabetta riccio - zanzibar - Detail of the freshly caught fish

Life flows very slowly, the women of the village help the village chief who works, every morning, to catch fresh fish for the community. It is customary to meet cows, goats and chickens along the paths inside the village, circulating freely while children return from school to nearby villages or from Stone Town.

elisabetta riccio - POLE POLE - In Jambiani the family heads of the village catch a lot of fish
elisabetta riccio - POLE POLE - Portrait of a young girl as she crosses the beach to go to school in the village of Jambiani
elisabetta riccio - POLE POLE - Man in the south of the island of zanzibar while burning the algae that have stuck to his boat
elisabetta riccio - POLE POLE - view from famous restaurant THE ROCK, Pingwe while a group of children play by the sea before the sea goes up
elisabetta riccio - POLE POLE -In the south of the island of zanzibar the phenomenon of high and low tide is very strong and allows the cultivation of algae.
elisabetta riccio - POLE POLE - Portrait of a young girl as she crosses the beach to go to school in the village of Jambiani
elisabetta riccio - POLE POLE - Man in the south of the island of zanzibar while burning the algae that have stuck to his boat
elisabetta riccio - POLE POLE - View from famous restaurant THE ROCK, Pingwe while a child plays by the sea before the sea goes up
elisabetta riccio - POLE POLE - In the village of jambiani, a group of children undertakes to collect the plastic that will be brought to stone town
elisabetta riccio - POLE POLE - In the village of jambiani, in zanzibar, the streets are crossed by cows
elisabetta riccio - POLE POLE - Crossroads that tells the story of busy life in the old city - stone town - zanziba
elisabetta riccio - POLE POLE - Kneeling girl in the stone town capital of Zanzibar
elisabetta riccio - POLE POLE - Woman walking in the old town - stone town - zanzibar