Photographer
Marseille
Aurélie Brun
Aurélie photographs the Mediterranean coast for Octavo, mostly at dawn, mostly from boats. Her pictures of the salt pans of Camargue opened issue № 08.
In the magazine
Reportage
№ 08
The last salt rakers of Castro Marim
Fourteen families still rake flor de sal by hand on the Algarve’s eastern edge. We spent a summer with the youngest of them.
Words by Inês Carvalho
Reportage
№ 08
Five generations of klippfisk
In Kristiansund, the Moe family has dried salted cod on the same rocks since 1871. The rocks are still there. The cod is getting harder to find.
Words by Hana Sørlie
Field Notes
№ 08
Field notes: a morning in Tavira
Four hours, one notebook and a market that closes at noon.
Words by Inês Carvalho
Reportage
№ 07
The people who pick our tomatoes
Every August, ten thousand seasonal workers arrive in Foggia. Luca Ferrante follows one crew from dawn to the long dinner after.
Words by Luca Ferrante
At the Table
№ 07
A long table in Puglia
The menu for the end of harvest: twelve dishes, forty people, one very old olive tree.
Words by Kwame Asante
Essays
№ 06
On learning to like bitter things
Coffee, chicory, grapefruit, grief. Hana Sørlie on the flavours we only understand later.
Words by Hana Sørlie