‘Climate change is real': devastating wildfire photography
'I hope we learn from these images that climate change is real, and it will affect everyone. Rich, poor, Black or white, people just like you. It's not a hoax or a can to be kicked down the road' Photograph: Phil Buehler
'I traveled to New York City on the bus from Jersey with money from my paper route stuffed in my shoe. When I was a senior in high school I rowed out to then-abandoned Ellis Island to make a 16mm movie and take photographs. That's when my fascination with abandoned places, and their hidden stories, really began' Photograph: Phil Buehler
'All around you just see brick chimneys, and this clock was hung on one and I was amazed that it somehow survived, although its face melted sort of like a Dali painting. It also reminded me of the clock in Hiroshima that stopped at the exact moment of the Atom bomb blast' Photograph: Phil Buehler
'I've been photographing abandoned places for 50 years' Photograph: Phil Buehler
'As an artist I could only imagine how I'd feel if my life's work was lost in a fire.' Photograph: Phil Buehler
'I hope that these immersive installations can transport people to Altadena neighborhood.' Photograph: Phil Buehler
'I saw signs around the parts of town that didn't burn that said 'Keep Altadena together' and I thought about how a community was shattered and if developers buy up the property, that community that was built over decades will disappear' Photograph: Phil Buehler
'Cars and ceramic sculptures were pretty much all that's left that speaks to the humanity of the tragedy' Photograph: Phil Buehler
'This is the Eliot Arts Magnet school in Altadena. I could picture an auditorium just at my high school, filled with kids whose lives were just interrupted by the fire. Some of these art students can use their experiences to make some amazing work one day' Photograph: Phil Buehler
'I've been documenting places of cultural or political importance, hoping to transport people to those places and times so they might look with fresh eyes' Photograph: Phil Buehler
'We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children'
Photograph: Phil Buehler
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