Conflagration

ISBN-13: 9781954877245 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 32 str.

Aaron Huey

Opis

There is something seductive about a temporaryâ apocalypse, the kind you can enter knowing it is notâ yours. Knowing that you can return to your unburned,â unflooded, uninterrupted world. For now. Eventually there will be no escape from theâ climate crisis or the conflagrations that rise from theâcompounding, cascading issues of consumption andâ overpopulation that light up our laptops and phoneâ screens in endless feeds of images like mine. And yes, Iâ know it was more than our changing climate that burnedâ LA. It was Santa Ana winds, the urban-wildland interface,â arson and power lines, and all the other elements ofâ this perfect storm. But I also know that our climate willâ continue to remind us of our consumption with eventsâ like these, closer together and more extreme. And thatâ story is bigger than the details of each chapter or theâ individuals in the images. I had already decided I would start following that larger story when I saw the city on fireâ that first night and started packing my bags for the airport.â..