Bittersweet Suriname (Suriname)
Along the banks of the Suriname and Commewijne rivers lie what remains of the once booming Dutch-Surinamese sugar industry. Since its downfall in the 1980s factories have been abandoned, machinery has been stolen or dismantled to be sold as scrap, and former plantations have been completely swallowed by jungle. The Argentine photographer Alejandro Chaskielberg travelled through Suriname to explore the remnants of this industry and the material and immaterial heritage of a colonial landscape in decay.
