Arles 2017 – Actes Sud : Mathieu Asselin, Monsanto – The Eye of Photography

In the United States, dozens of Monsanto sites (classified as sensitive by the Federal Environment Agency) are maintaining activities with severe sanitary and environmental consequences. In the name of human and environmental rights, scientists and institutions have already raised alarm. This photographic quest aims to raise awareness about Monsanto’s current practices to understand the impact of their activities on human beings and their environment. This work offers a photographic dive into the chemical company’s past and present. It combines the company’s archival documents and many portraits and landscapes directly affected by the environmental consequences of this industrial production.