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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.

Chosen unanimously by the jury as the first prize of the Dummy Book Award Fotobook Festival Kassel 2016, 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. The relevance of the subject and the gaze of Mathieu Asselin is carried by an original layout of the book which was also rewarded by a special mention from the jury of the Luma Dummy Book Award during the 2016 Rencontres photographiques d’Arles and honoured by the first prize of the Aperture Foundation Paris Photo First Book Award in 2017.

This new edition is extended by a chapter addressing the Monsanto-Bayer merger which took place in 2018/2019.