Maxime Riché / Paradise
Megafires spurred by climate change no longer spare any region of the globe. On November 8, 2018, the megafire Camp Fire ravaged Paradise, California, killing 86 people. In 2021, the Dixie Fire started under the same power lines that crisscross the hills around Paradise.
I met those who decided to rebuild their "paradise" in a place that now seems brutally inhospitable. To account for the intensity of emotion heard in my conversations with survivors, I use an infrared slide film, whose blazing colors break into the tenuous normality of their new life, flashbacks of the flames seared on their retinae as they rebuild in the shadow of the next disaster.
The tale of Paradise gives us a glimpse at the next place that will have to go through healing after a disaster whose causes are, increasingly, human.
Published by André Frère
24 × 30 cm
128 pages
2024
English / French
Megafires spurred by climate change no longer spare any region of the globe. On November 8, 2018, the megafire Camp Fire ravaged Paradise, California, killing 86 people. In 2021, the Dixie Fire started under the same power lines that crisscross the hills around Paradise.
I met those who decided to rebuild their "paradise" in a place that now seems brutally inhospitable. To account for the intensity of emotion heard in my conversations with survivors, I use an infrared slide film, whose blazing colors break into the tenuous normality of their new life, flashbacks of the flames seared on their retinae as they rebuild in the shadow of the next disaster.
The tale of Paradise gives us a glimpse at the next place that will have to go through healing after a disaster whose causes are, increasingly, human.
Published by André Frère
24 × 30 cm
128 pages
2024
English / French
Megafires spurred by climate change no longer spare any region of the globe. On November 8, 2018, the megafire Camp Fire ravaged Paradise, California, killing 86 people. In 2021, the Dixie Fire started under the same power lines that crisscross the hills around Paradise.
I met those who decided to rebuild their "paradise" in a place that now seems brutally inhospitable. To account for the intensity of emotion heard in my conversations with survivors, I use an infrared slide film, whose blazing colors break into the tenuous normality of their new life, flashbacks of the flames seared on their retinae as they rebuild in the shadow of the next disaster.
The tale of Paradise gives us a glimpse at the next place that will have to go through healing after a disaster whose causes are, increasingly, human.
Published by André Frère
24 × 30 cm
128 pages
2024
English / French
