You may have heard of farm-to-table cooking, a movement where food is delivered directly from the producer to your plate. In the Taiwanese capital of Taipei, a new craze is seeing people cut out the middleman, fishing for shrimp in huge urban pools. Here, Oliver Hartman of filmmaking collective Jungles in Paris talks about the pastime:
“The film is about shrimping—kind of a specific cultural activity. People fish for their own shrimp and usually cook and eat them on site (often prepared with a little bit of salt). Some of the older guys just go to catch the shrimp and give them to other folks.
“This was filmed in Shinlin, about 40 minutes from New Taipei City. There are a handful of these spots and many are open late. To add to the sport, the water is made opaque so you can't see the shrimp.”