As flames consumed the business district and surrounding neighborhoods of Altadena, CA, reducing them to smoldering ruins in one of the most devastating urban firestorms in US history, an eerie sense of calm settled over those who chose to stay behind on the morning of January 8th. With no way to fight the inevitable, they chose to bear witness, confronted by the raw power of nature and the undeniable fragility of everything they once thought permanent.
Contax Tvs ii | Kodak Portra 800
