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Fire Ghosts (Hardcover)
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Fire Ghosts (Hardcover)
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In the summer of 2011, in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico, a
falling power line sparked a wildfire that burned 158,753 acres of
forest. From their home in Santa Fe, thirty air miles southeast,
photographers Patricia Galagan and Philip Metcalf watched what came
to be known as the Las Conchas fire burn day and night for more
than a month. As soon as the roads reopened, they went to the
mountains to see the damage this violent fire had wrought. Taking a
trail to the rim of Cochiti Canyon, they passed through sections of
forest that had burned so hot that nothing remained but blackened
trunks and negative spaces where huge tree roots had been. The
canyon and the waves of ridges beyond were black with standing dead
trees. The visual chaos of the burned forest, at first daunting,
pushed them to look harder, to see differently. As they did so, the
forest began to look beautiful in its highly altered state. For
more than seven years they were compelled to make photographs of
the aftermath of the fire to draw people beyond the news-cycle
images of smoke and flames into the reality of a forest after an
extreme fire. Forest Ghosts is both their ode to the old forest and
their gift to help us understand that, in this era of accelerating
climate change and increasingly devastating wildfires all over the
American West, the new forests will never be the same, but we can
still find beauty and enlightenment in the aftermath.
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