“Bitter honey” is a documentary project about the challenging experience of contemporary beekeeping. By following beekeepers across France, Margaux Senlis seeks to bear witness to the disappearance of bees through a photographic series with soft appearances and honey-like, alluring tones. The causes of this disappearance are various and connected; climate change, droughts, parasites, monocultures, and of course, the use of certain pesticides in agriculture. When pesticides do not kill bees directly, they weaken them, making them less resistant and less able to fight off increasingly numerous diseases and parasites.