This is another from the “Healing a River” project I have been working on for almost a year now. In this image, two women unload crabs they caught in the Duwamish River. Signs nearby warn that no shellfish from these waters, including crabs, are fit for human consumption. They women claimed the signs were old and explained to me that they had been feeding crabs like these to their families for years. The mother and daughter, immigrants from the Philippines, now live in Federal Way and make the trip often to go crabbing in the toxic waters of the Duwamish.

This is from a long term project I’ve been working on about healing Seattle’s Duwamish River. It’s incredibly polluted but multiple local groups are organizing to clean up and revitalize the river. This picture is from a group that meets regularly to pray and energetically heal the river using various spiritual practices, including Johrei.