Into the Inferno: A Decade of Photographing California's Megafires with Stuart Palley

Please register here for this free event.

Everyone is invited to attend this live Zoom event with Stuart Palley. In his talk "Into the Inferno: A Decade of Photographing California's Megafires," he'll share his experience photographing wildfires, as he's seen them become larger, deadlier, and more destructive.

This talk is part of Spring Creek Project's lecture series "Lookout: Envisioning Futures with Wildfire."

A native of Southern California, Stuart’s work focuses on the intersection of humankind and nature, technology and hubris, and the temporal nature of the human made world. His work also looks at modern society’s impact on the environment. His recent work on wildfires, Terra Flamma: Wildfires at Night, focuses on documenting the most acute effect of drought in California, wildfire through long exposure images at night. Over the past eight years Stuart has photographed over 100 wildfires in the state and has formal wildland fire training.

"Lookout: Envisioning Futures with Wildfire" is an 11-week series exploring how we are shaping this era of megafires and how it is shaping us. Speakers from across the arts, humanities, and environmental sciences will help us scan the horizon for the ideas and stories that can guide us through this critical and disorienting time.

SCHEDULE
Talks in the series will be broadcast live on Zoom Tuesdays at 6 p.m. PST / 8 p.m. CST / 9 p.m. EST from January 4 to March 15. Learn more and register for other talks here: https://bit.ly/3lHTlex

This series is hosted by the Spring Creek Project and the Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative at Oregon State University and co-sponsored by OSU's Center for the Humanities and Sustainability Office. Palley's lecture is also co-sponsored by Corvallis-Benton County Public Library and Grass Roots Books & Music.