Farming in the shadow

This old woman was out inspecting her smallholding while we got on with our work mucking about looking for shots. Her small farm, indeed the whole village, was covered in volcanic ash which is extremely fertile apparently. Hard to imagine when the landscape looked so dusty and bleak.

She turned out to be in her late 80’s and still spry enough to farm her land.

AXA. The Science of Risk. 2015.