Over the course of our research, we discovered that Atkins and Dixon’s book Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns contains many ferns from Jamacia; this led to the discovery that Atkins' husband and father-in-law both owned at least 8 plantations in Jamaica. Our findings show Atkins, both directly and indirectly, benefited from the slave trade and colonial project. The discovery has led the project to focus on areas of, decolonising the garden, the Victorian fern craze, land ownership, capitalism, the use of boundaries, the colonial project, in particular, its links with botany, planation’s, plundering of foreign lands and plant hunters.

This discovery informed the project and pivoted the main focus points leading to a different route walked. On August 21^st, 2021, we undertook a weeklong walk starting at the house where Atkins lived (paid for by colonial project money), then walking to the house where Sir John Herschel (inventor of the cyanotype process) lived and then onto Ferring, where Anne Dixon lived. The work we produced on the walk will now highlight the new research discovery we made, including Atkins' links with the colonial project, while still acknowledging the achievement of Atkins being the first person to publish a book of photographs. On the walk, we dragged a trolley that carried our photographic equipment and acted as a darkroom on wheels, it also acted as a table where we could eat and socialise with people we met along the way and discuss the impetus of the project.