![]() “I don’t know exactly what telling the story and showing these scenes will do, but I hope something good comes from it. I wish there was something I could do, but I guess I’m doing what I can, which is to take pictures and have the story be told,” he said. ![]() I try and exhibit some compassion, and tell them I’m really sorry for their loss.” “Occasionally, somebody will say ‘no,’ and I’ll just then leave, but I effectively get permission from them to be there and photograph them. I just let them know I’m a photographer on assignment for AFP, which I was.” “I know that it’s a very difficult time for them, and they’re struggling with a lot. Photograph: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty ImagesĮdelson, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, said he always approaches residents before taking photos, asking if it’s OK for him to be there. Residents Cody Najera, right, and Arizona Erb look through the remains of their burned home in Greenville, California, on 4 September. “I don’t want to say that it’s forgotten, but the news cycle moves pretty quickly, so it was really important to me to keep this in people’s faces and keep that picture going.” “I know there’s a lot of other stuff going on as well, but I just couldn’t believe that people weren’t jumping on the chance to go and photograph residents returning home in the Greenville area,” Edelson said. When Greenville burned, there was a huge column of ash that was just kind of towering over it, and that sort of pushed fire into the town.” Nobody expected fire to come into the Lake Tahoe basin, but it did,” Edelson said at one point in conversation with the Guardian. California’s largest wildfire has leveled much of the downtown and some surrounding homes in a small Northern California mountain community. “It seems like every year they get worse or at least in this case, different. “So I really wanted to get that, especially since the Caldor fire, with the Lake Tahoe basin, has kind of, more taken over, or dominated, the headlines in terms of fire.” The Caldor fire has approached Lake Tahoe, though firefighters have made progress in battling the blaze. ![]() Photograph: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images And, they might be visually striking images, but the emotional side of fires typically comes when people start returning home.”Ī family of deer wanders through burned rubble in Greenville, California, on Saturday. “Usually, when covering a wildfire, it’s actual fire, firefighters, people are evacuated. “I’ve wanted to get photos of residents coming home or to what’s left of their homes, because I feel like those are some of the only opportunities to get the most emotional visuals from a fire,” said Edelson, 42. Cantrell told Edelson that firefighters had found the dog and buried it on the property. The family dog had perished in the blaze. When Cantrell arrived at the pile of rubble, she discovered a small mound, with a sort of little cross on it. In one of Edelson’s photos, a woman named Riley Cantrell holds her face and cries as she surveys the charred remains of her mother’s home with her boyfriend, Bradley Fairbanks. * Updated четвер 9 Березень 2023 p.Wendy Weight, left, reacts while viewing the burned remains of her home in Greenville, California, on Saturday. Business Date to Date (exclude holidays).
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