Rakesprogress Volume 18

Inside the new issue photographer Murray Ballard shares his story of documenting the sudden and shocking demise of Puglia’s olive groves, which had once produced almost half of Italy’s olive oil. Ballard’s haunting photographs capture all the longing and despair of a society that is not just dealing with a natural disaster but is also on the cusp of a new way of life as the modern world rapidly replaces the old. We also travel to the Svalbard