The year 2023 was marked by an exceptionally intense fire season in North America.
What remains after the fire has passed? How can we bear witness to it? Blackened trunks and sooty soil incubate life forces that allow the jack pine cone and the longhorn beetle to be part of immemorial cycles.
Nicolas Lévesque and Charles-Frédérick Ouellet explored the unorganized territory of the Passes-Dangereuses in search of clues testifying to this natural process. Their approach highlights an irreversible paradigm shift: one in which human beings realize the urgency of coexisting with their natural environment.
These images encourage us to rethink our role. Rather than being overwhelmed masters of ecosystems, let us become partners in regeneration.
