The Dying Art Of Cormorant Fishing

Guided only by the flicker of their lanterns and the last light of a dimming sun, cormorant fishermen drift silently across a Chinese lake, hoping to make a last catch for the day. These photographs provide eery and touching snapshots of a dying tradition, all but stamped out by big business.

As the sun sets in these remarkable images, taken in China's Guangxi Zhuang region to record the ancient art of the cormorant fisherman, so to fades the light of a once vibrant and lucrative industry that has taken place in Japan and China for more than a thousand years.