(In pictures) The American city of Paradise is trying to rebuild after a megafire

On November 8, 2018, the city of Paradise (California) turns into hell. The Camp Fire megafire, of unprecedented intensity, wiped the peaceful city off the map in four hours: it reduced 18,000 buildings to ashes (homes, schools, businesses, etc.) and killed 89 people. In 2020 and 2021, the French photographer Maxime Riché goes there to meet those who are trying to rebuild their Eden on these lands still marked by the scars of the fire. During its two long stays, two other megafires, Dixie Fire and North Complex Fire, raged around it. Anxiety, even, for some, post-traumatic stress syndrome, persists. Far from sensationalist images, Maxime Riché questions here the psychological impact of the disaster, the slow reconstruction of a daily life and a future.