Graphic pictures shed light on annual whale kill in the Faroe Islands dating back 400 years

For more than four centuries, the dwellers of the remote Faroe Islands located 200 miles off the coast of Scotland have been killing pilot whales for blubber and meat. Recently, the gory tradition has piqued the interest of an American photographer with ties to the region who travelled to the archipelago to capture the horror and grotesque beauty of the annual whale hunt. Benjamin Rasmussen, of Denver, visited Faroe Islands, a protectorate of Denmark, to shed light on the startling practice in which entire villages go out in boats, herd pods of pilot whales close to shore and then cut their necks, turning the waters red with blood.

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