This 2019 rephotography takes a second look at the hill neighborhoods destroyed by the Oakland Firestorm of 1991. View the series here.
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New Series: Oakland Fire Rephotograph
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Category Archives: Fire
New Series: Urban Wildfire Revisited
This series looks at the post-fire landscape of Santa Rosa’s 2017 Tubbs Fire. Having lived through the 1991 Oakland Firestorm, I found distant memories resurfacing.
Oakland Firestorm Revisited. 24 years.
Hiller burning. Oakland Firestorm. 1991.
This year marks the 24th anniversary of the Oakland Hills Firestorm. Over 3,000 homes were destroyed, including my childhood home and the entire neighborhood in which I grew up. I spent two years photographing the aftermath. A portfolio of that work, including several essays I’ve written about the event, can be found here.
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Oakland Firestorm: Twenty Years
Rebirth. Mountain Blvd. Aftermath Oakland Firestorm 1991.
On this twentieth anniversary of the Oakland Firestorm I am revisiting my photography and writing created around the time of the catastrophe.
I have put together a web page that contains 36 images shot during and after the fire, an essay on the events of that day, and the introduction to Lake Tahoe: A Fragile Beauty, where I discuss our relationship with fire.
http://www.thomasbachand.com/oakland_firestorm/
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