Yelena Zhavoronkova
B U R N E D onllne exhibition fall 2021

“The year 2015 brought extreme hot and dry weather to Lake County in Northern California. One forest fire after another was burning the hills all summer and then, in September, the Valley Fire happened. Nobody expected that the fire could move that fast, nobody was warned or prepared. The heat from the flames created its own climate with unpredictable winds; the smog and debris were flying all over; the embers were igniting everything in their path. Communities had to be evacuated immediately, leaving behind belongings, pets, livestock. People were jumping out of the burning cars and leaving them on the road, escaping by foot.

“I was right in the middle of this chaos and can confirm the terror we all experienced. In just a couple of hours, Mother Nature overpowered us humans. Four people had vanished, hundreds of houses burned, and countless lives were ruined.

“The BURNED series is dedicated to those tragic events. It consists of the ‘portraits’ of the plants, which went through the fire, but survived, carrying the burns on their branches and leaves.”

— Yelena Zhavoronkova

The images in BURNED are open-edition archival pigment prints.

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