Places / Documentary Archive
A geographic archive of landscapes that bear witness to disaster, recovery, and community resilience, tracing how communities live with the long aftermath of fire, flood, contamination, and extreme weather.
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Mountain town shaped by catastrophic wildfire and the slow work of rebuilding homes, forests, and memory.
Asheville, North Carolina
Mountain city marked by recurring river floods and the uneven protections offered to different neighborhoods.
Times Beach, Missouri
Ghost town erased by dioxin contamination, where evacuation and demolition left behind an emptied landscape.
Joplin, Missouri
Midwestern city rebuilt in the long shadow of a devastating EF5 tornado and its uneven recovery.
Hudson Valley, New York
River corridor confronting toxic legacies of industry, rising waters, and shifting rural-urban economies.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Plateau landscape where nuclear weapons research, wildfire, and contamination overlap on occupied homelands.
Hermits Peak–Calf Canyon
High-country watersheds transformed by the largest wildfire in New Mexico history and its post-fire floods.
Ruidoso, New Mexico
Forest-edge community navigating repeated wildfires, evacuations, and the risks of living in the urban-wildland interface.
Church Rock, New Mexico
Diné community living with the long fallout of uranium mining, mill waste, and a massive radioactive spill.