An exhibit at the California Museum of Photography showcases images from photojournalists depicting the chaos caused by wildfires. The Facing Fires exhibit chronicles the worst of California’s latest fires and their destruction.

Christian Houge collects taxidermied trophy animals and burns them to demonstrate humans’ destructive effect on the natural world.

Photography: Christian Houge

Photography: Christian Houge

The Woolsey Fire in 2018 advances up a hill.

Photography: Kevin Cooley

Photographer Norma I. Quintana’s found the burned remnants of her passport in the wreckage of her home shortly after the Atlas Peak Fire in 2017.

Photography: Norma I. Quintana

Using an old-fashioned large-format camera, Luther Gerlach photographed the charred remains of the 2017 Thomas Fire.

Photography: Luther Gerlach

Houge burns a taxidermy mountain lion.

Photography: Christian Houge

Christoph Kapeller photographed charred hills after the 2018 Woolsey Fire.

Photography: Christoph Kapeller

Richard Hutter was working as a U.S. Marine Corps photographer when his helicopter crashed, soaking him in jet fuel and burning his skin beneath his flight suit. Here, he demonstrates the trauma of that fire in his self-portrait photograph.

Photography: Richard Hutter