Sunken Gardens

In February 2010, Helene Schmitz made a journey to Suriname in South America in the footsteps of Daniel Rolander, a neglected and forgotten Linnaean apostle. As a part of the project she visited a butterfly farm run by a Dutchman in the middle of the jungle. The man's failed attempts to curb a seemingly insatiable natural habitat captured her interest.

The photographs were exhibited in Paris at Galerie Maria Lund in 2010, and at the museum Fotografiska in Stockholm in 2011.