"Tristes Tropiques"

In Europe, after the america colonisation, since Louis XIV, the kings started to collect the exotic plants brought by the explorators. On the 19 century, somme greenhouses (Like the serres tropicales of le jardin des plantes in Paris) were opened to the public, to show what is a rainforest. But these artificial rainforests are done like traditional occidental gardens and are not looking like the real ones.... Today their meaning has changed, everybody through global media know what is a rainforest. These greenhouses are like museums which are focusing what is disapearing in our real world... I decided to make these photos serie to opposite them to the one I did in deep Amazon rainforest, and they are showing this greenhouse as an artificial world like a kitsch dream.... Photos done with a Leica R7 with a leica 50 mm 2.8 lenswith a Kodak film at "Les serres tropicales du Jardin des Plantes", Paris, France. Valéry Grancher 2011