Intimately linked to the Botanical Garden, although less well known, the Conservatory is offering a photographic exhibition as part of its 200th anniversary in collaboration with the Bains des Pâquis Users’ Association. A discovery of its collections and the work of scientists which inventory, describe and classify plant and fungal diversity to ensure their conservation.
Different perspectives
The photographers Régis Golay And Baptiste Coulon sublimate, through their lens, the unsuspected treasures of the Conservatory and Botanical Gardens made up of herbarium boardsbotanical works, DNA tubes or frozen seeds.
The thirty photographs offer a glimpse of what lies behind the walls of the institution: theresearch laboratoriesthere seed bankas well as the many gestures of the researchers who work there. Of the drone footagetaken by Yvon Labarthecomplete this photographic visit by providing another vision and revealing the beauty of the Garden seen from the sky.
“These spectacular images take an artistic look at our collections and allow the public to discover from an original angle certain fundamental activities of our work generally not very visible” explains Martin Callmander, curator.
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