An Artist Captures How Summer’s Heat Waves Hit Paris and Its Homeless so Hard
Antonova’s digital series shows how record heat deepens hardship for homeless people and reshapes daily life in the French capital.
- Illustrator Marina Antonova is documenting Paris's intense heat stress in her series "Chronicles of a Heating Planet," capturing record-breaking temperatures exceeding 40 C that plagued the city in recent months.
- France recorded at least 7,200 more deaths than usual during successive heat waves this year, according to the national public health agency, while wildfires swept through the forest of Fontainebleau near Paris.
- Through her art, Antonova depicts the "bullying behavior of an overpowering sun" and the stark contrast between air-conditioned office workers and homeless people sleeping outside, calling her work "anti-postcards."
- Antonova suggests future heat waves could discourage tourism, warning that "in five or 10 years Paris could get so hot people might not want to go here" during summer.
- Using an iPad for immediacy, Antonova observes a future already arrived, asking what daily life looks like when climate change becomes a "permanent condition" rather than a prediction.
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PARIS (AP) — As Paris emerges from months of oppressive heat, cooler autumn temperatures are welcomed back like a long-lost friend. But images of France’s hottest summer remain etched in memories — and in the artwork of illustrator Marina Antonova. Paris is admired worldwide for aesthetic beauty, but the city kept hitting the news for...
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PARIS (AP) — As Paris emerges from months of oppressive heat, cooler autumn temperatures are welcomed back like a long-lost friend. But images of France’s hottest summer remain etched in memories — and in the artwork of illustrator Marina Antonova. Paris is admired worldwide for aesthetic beauty, but the city kept hitting the news for...
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