film photography as anthropology

Fire in California | 2018

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I got to know the landscape as I do my own body. The body of the land—changed yet still the same.

In 2018, the Ranch Fire, later known as the Mendocino Complex Fire, ravaged Lake and Mendocino County. That August, the off-grid, 80-acre ranch I called home burned. Though the main cabin was spared, I was forced to relocate.