“Fuego y niebla: las consecuencias de los incendios de Pacific Palisades de 2025”: un libro de fotografías

I grew up there. We sold the house in 1986, but I never really left. My friends lived on the parade route, and we met there every year. When I was prepping for a long hike we trained out of Temescal up to Skull Rock and beyond. I co-organized a little league oldtimers game in 1999. To say I knew the Palisades intimately might be an overstatement, but it was in my DNA.
The photographs in this book are of a place I don't know. Except for the Business Block, Corpus Christi, and a few chimneys, I don't recognize much of anything. These are photographs of what lay beneath the homes I knew. The flags at the Park are good landmarks for orienting oneself (something I did on the 4th of July 2025), but the rest of the place is a strange landscape.
If the purpose of art is to communicate the human experience, then this book succeeds. It's not an experience any of us wanted to have. This book preserves the time after the fire when the recriminations and doubts were beginning to gain speed, and before the work of rebuilding the Palisades had begun. It's a book about the moments after disaster and before hope.

Fire and Fog - The Aftermath of the 2025 Pacific Palisades Fires