Image 4
Written Responses
Image 4 responses
Uganda
Paul Ssendagire
Man deliberately sits on the freedom of other beings.
China
Ren Wei
After looking at this image, I have rich feelings. First, it makes me think of the ecological situation at present world. We destroy the ecology and kill so many animals every year. The mud on net also indicates nowadays the river is not clean any more. Take my hometown as an example. There are several rivers and a big lake here. However, most of them are polluted now and stink. We have to do something for that. Secondly, the fish in the net reminds me of some limitations of individuals caused by family and society. You know, China is famous for its family-centered culture and hierarchy in society. In China , especially countryside, a young man will seriously consider his family before make his decisions of his life and future. And in China , the complex social relationships definitely affect an individual's career.
China
Shen Hui Hua
This picture shows the fish is catched by the net. It also explored that life is not so safe. It exists dangers everywhere all the time.
Lebanon
Wassim Sabah Kanaan
This picture tells me how a fish lost its hope after a big struggle to escape. It may also represent fishermen; perhaps their shortage since it is just one fish.
Indonesia
Priscilla Hermali
This picture reminds me of the time when my family went on holiday to a resort, where there is a big pool (mind you, the water is not clear and very muddy), then my sister told me that there are big octopus that will grab my leg when I jump inside the pool.
India
Gurinder Singh
The picture shows a fish being caught in a net. It gives the feeling that fish wants freedom. The fish is really shocked and is trying her best to get out of the net and live a free life.
Taiwan
Yu-Ling Lin
This fish is trying to get off this net, even it has no way to do. This fish has no freedom. It may not work even people is trying hard to do something that they really want to carry out.
Borneo
Rainadi Damursyah
Seeing this picture reminds me of my home town. Whenever I go fishing with my dad, we put the fish in the fishing net. This also reminds me of the big fishing net which the fishermen use to catch the fish in the sea. I also have friends who live near the beach; seeing this picture makes me want to go and visit them. This makes me want to go fishing near my friends' place, then cook straight away the fish we catch from fishing.
Germany
Christiane Wildt
A fish in open water normally is standing for freedom and the power to swim everywhere he wants to be. But he's caught now. He is in prison, taking all his power to get out of this situation, but he can't. He's like a person under pressure (war, politics, dictator). He wanted to be free, but unfortunately, it depends on the decision of a foreign being (mankind) if he could get back or not. I can see a little hole, he could get out. For me it shows me that when I'm in a situation like the fish, I should turn around and have a look at my surrounding to find a way out of this situation and find a way to solve the problem or to get away to get out of this situation.
Indonesia
Intan Nurcahya
This picture shows a fish caught in the fishing net. The background is of a waterfall or just a fierce flow up river bed. Therefore it is most likely that it indicates the fish is of fresh water. The type of fish might be salmon, trout or fresh water bass.
Russia
George Kesselman
Fish caught in the net on ice: Creature caught, restrained, and taken out of its environment that didn't find the escape and died as the result. Reminds me of people that are faced with the changed environment and sometimes are restrained by their new conditions. If they don't fight hard enough or slip through the net they have no other choice than give up.
India
Kamalpreet Singh
This picture shows the positive thinking and struggling power. In this picture you can see that there is a fish and she is stuck in the net but she is still trying to get out from the net. She is doing fight against the net for her freedom.
Cameroon
Pascal G Bekono
Cette image représente un poisson capturé dans un filet de pêche, pendant une saison d'hiver.
Taiwan
Tony Hsu
No matter what you do. You can't change destiny. Just let it be!!!
Hong Kong
Yu Hoi
It is the end of the life; using web to catch fish; want to make sushi and make people feel hungry.
Nigeria
Mbachu Chichi
A fish in a net. This means that we youth are in an enclosed world and need liberation in the digital world.
Bangladesh
Fazle Elahi Ibne Nasir
If I think very normally then I think it can shows a fisherman's life. How hard it is to catch fish from the ocean in a rough weather. The fisherman lives on this…or maybe something like this. Now if I think critically, then maybe the fish in the picture is a very dangerous shark fish. The fish is dangerous for humans. So God has captured the fish so the people can breathe easily. We can represent the fish as a terrorist. As we know a lot of terrorist activities going on nowadays.
China
Shize Liu
The fish seems to be dying. While it does not give up, although it is hopeless. The ugly web stands for evil. Through the web I can see the cruel murderer behind. Life is the most valuable thing for the fish, therefore it tries its best to save that. Compare with the web, fish is so weak and less powerful. However it still fights against evil. It is the last chance to save the most valuable things for itself.
Jordan
Anas Alabbadi
It's sad, because I am trying to resist, but it seams there will be no success, I might achieve something, but it will not be enough, and I will give up at a certain point, I don't like this photo, because even the fish managed partly to go out of the net, but I can see that the resistance is hopeless in this photo, even if those who give the net they might be trying to save the fish not to hunt it, but no, I can see sadness, frustration and no hope in this photo.
Germany
Uwe Terton
The feeling I have while watching this image is an uncomfortable feeling. Sometimes I feel like this fish, caught in a situation where I like to get out, the more I try to untangle the more exhausted I become, but giving up means the end and death. In this image there is hope for the fish, there is an opening on the left side of the net and for me it seems that the fish could make it out of the net by going backwards. So maybe this is a metaphor that to go backwards might sometimes be the solution; going back to rethink future actions. The feeling of hope is emphasized by the warm colours of pink, yellow and white. The image is very dynamic; it depicts lots of motion which enhances the scenario of the fight for life.
Malawi
Code Admore Sangala
Fish caught up in the net
Its a struggle for survivor
Life and death battle
If it struggles on it may just free itself from the
net and live.
If it gives in it will die and make a good meal on
someone's table.
A good catch is a Fisherman's pride!
West Sahara
Oruntomigbekele Fasina
ENTRAPPED. SOS- save our oul. SM-save me. Thus man wipes out a lot of nature's sea-water beauty. Considering global structure, the top part of the net is the North(Western World) while the bottom part is the South (Africa America Asia) entrapped in the NEOGLOBALIST'S MESH.
Malaysia
Pauline Hui Ying Ooi
The immediate image I formed in mind was a place filled with snow like the Antarctica , and I saw an Eskimo man out there trying to fish nearby the igloo which he lived in. The man was in his big and thick winter clothing with big boots. He had a few snow dogs running around and a toboggan stationed in front of his igloo. On the abstract side of the fish being trapped in a net, it's like the end of a person's freedom. The fish is like a human who has all the freedom in life to do whatever he/she wants just like the fish swimming freely in the water. But life at times throws us some dangers/threats just like the net to the fish. The size of the holes on the net symbolizes how big the dangers/threats are. The bigger the hole means the smaller the obstacle, as such, as we are able to slip off the net easily and get over with it. Likewise, if the holes are smaller, it means more struggles to break free but if we are strong enough to persevere, the fish can bite off the net and set themselves free.
Turkey
Ramazan Cin
Two things came out in my mind when i saw this image. First one is fishermans in the north side of Turkiye, Black Sea . The second one is, fish in this image sembolize the weak people and fishermans are strong people.
French-Canada
Simon Gargonne
Prise inéluctable, liberté captive,
Pris dans tes rets, je deviens objet
Inutile de résister, tel est mon destin
Quittant mon monde, mon habitat, ma vie
Dans un dernier sursaut de résistance,
Tu me surconsommes,
Tu m'épies,
Je revois le monde duquel tu m'arraches peu à peu s ‘éloigner,
Bientôt sans force, je m'abandonne,
Victime de tes plaisirs insatiables
Sri Lanka
Asanga Pradeep S. Coorey
There may be a hidden story about the fisherman because he has caught the fish and the net is in the ice and protected. but where is the fisherman? Or it has happened that maybe an environmental disaster. The other meaning as seen this picture is like this fish is trying to escape from the net. We don't know whether it'll succeed or not.
Burma
Theingi Tun
Caught in the moment
Caught in our lives
Do we truly try?
Do we truly fight?
With the possibilities of the deep blue sea
Are we really all that we can be?
Caught!
Cry for help
No response
No release
No help!
Suffocating, my life disappearing
I try to get out but
The strain is too much
The rope is too tight
I can't get out
Help!
No more family
No more friends
Is this the way my life was supposed to end?
Pull!
Sealed my fate
Please beware or else you too will get
Caught!
India
Vinita Agarwal
In this image, of the fish caught frozen in time it disturbed me that the fish was motionless, yet you could almost feel what it is that it is going through - the pain of being caught, trapped. In response to this image I wrote the following poem:
The swift movements are rendering me silent,
I feel caught yet yearn to be free,
My mind jitters and shakes as the fear begins to encapsulate my body.
Water moves, but slowly, it cannot stop to aid.
Heart racing, memories fading, I begin to forget
All that was mine, and all that will never be.
Slovenia
Ursula Jasovec
Every flower has its thorns
Riba, mreža, lov, preživetje, hrana, belo meso, srebrna reka, moment …
Fish from a silver river, trapped in a net.
Symbolism: Fish-humankind, who used to live in a great, lively, healthy, non-polluted enviroment, but now not so bright as it was before- trapped in hands of those, who manipulate them. Many people let themselves to be trapped by others. We should fight over it, and help people in need by every mean we can!
North, eskimo, raw fish, mean for a survival, ice, cold …
Hladne barve, a vseeno mocne, ki spomninjajo na bisere-barva neokrnjene reke. Natancno narisana mreža in hitrost ribinega repa, ki se bojuje za preživetje in rešitev iz ujetništva.
Hong Kong
Ka-Man Yim
Hong Kong was a fishing village in the past, it was undeveloped. It has now developed as a cosmopolitan city where east meets west. Although tall buildings are built everywhere, it seems that people still remember we are developed from a fishing village and the fishing boat has become an icon of Hong Kong .
Philippines
Geri Niemi
Adversity