Rena Effendi

Story and photographs by Rena Effendi. Originally published in National Geographic. Feature documentary Searching for Satyrus , which is coming to cinemas soon. My father once told me that the average lifespan of butterflies is seldom more than a few weeks. My father, Rustam Effendi, shown here at Maralgöl Lake in western Azerbaijan, was an esteemed Soviet lepidopterist who hunted butterflies and moths in the borderlands between Armenia and Azerbaijan, an area home to a species that was...