On November 8, 2018, the Camp Fire megafire destroyed Paradise, a town in California (USA), in less than four hours. On July 13, 2021, another megafire, the Dixie Fire, started near Paradise, although the winds pushed it away from the town this time. This fire, the largest in California’s history, burned 390,000 hectares over more than 100 days. Maxime Riché traveled to Paradise in 2020 and again in 2021 to meet those who decided to rebuild their «paradise» in a place that now seems deeply inhospitable. To sensitively capture the emotions of the survivors and the images that haunt them, he used analog photography, intermittently employing infrared slide film. Navigating the boundaries between documentary and fiction, the Paradise series serves as a parable about our capacity for adaptation and our growing separation from nature, our hubris in trying to defy it at all costs.