These photos show the human side of seal hunting – The Washington Post

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Perspective | Showing the human side of seal hunting

For many communities in Canada and beyond, seal hunting is part of the social fabric, says photographer Yoanis Menge

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/09/27/showing-the-human-side-of-seal-hunting/

Yoanis Menge was waiting for his train in Paris when he first saw the ad. “There was this huge poster for a campaign against seal hunting,” he says. “It was a Photoshop montage of an adult seal holding a club and about to crush the head of a human baby on the ice.”