Terrific essay Henry.
I looked first at the images without reading the text and the tension is palpable. This first image that does not seem to have been included to the essay is an excellent cover; one immediately feels that it's about life and death and sharp knives as if the fish tails becomes the weapon of choice.
The first image of the essay where you placed your action is a bit of a let down but then you follow with the tremendous profile of a man ready to be consumed by a wild beast. The fish (profile also) is like a totemic figure as if carved in wood but then, bang, comes the next image and we are in Moby Dick territory!
In rapid succession the other images tell of more horror stories and one gets obsessed with shapes that could be humongous fish or small boats of fishermen that disappeared in horrible storms or bloody battles, and this in a cold like permafrost.
And then the last picture of people looking? witnessing? almost smiling? - I wish you could end with a more forceful image but I feel that there is a continuation of this story.
Do not take a break from creating these essays Henry. You have in me a faithful and curious follower.
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