/ 2026 / Fine Art / Portraiture

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Pascal Dumas, New Caledonia
• Date of Photograph
  08/10/2024

Preserving botanical specimens is both a science and an art. Surrounded by his tools, this collections specialist at the Natural History Museum embodies the meeting of a centuries-old craft tradition with the most modern scientific techniques at New Caledonia's herbarium. A race against time to preserve the extraordinary botanical richness of a territory at the edge of the world, on the front line of climate change.