Michele Sibiloni: Nsenene

Otherworldly photographs of Uganda's nocturnal grasshopper catchers In ghostly color, Italian photographer Michele Sibiloni (born 1981) captures the ad-hoc, nighttime harvest of nsenene--Uganda's long-horned grasshopper. Straddling the line between tradition and modernization, this book speaks to local customs and ingenuity, and the realities of environmental change.

"Nsenene are a delicacy and an important source of income in Uganda. Technically bush crickets but generally referred to as “grasshoppers”, nsenene migrate en masse twice a year, right after the two rainy seasons. Huge swarms fill the sky shortly before sunrise. So, night after night during cricket season, many