‘I thought a devil was about to appear from the smoke’: Jerry Hsu’s best photograph

Comments

1. Kai: you call that an eerie, spontaneous thing? LA's just a tinderbox, what's 'hilarious' about it?
2. Mayad: reminds me of that one time in Shibuya when the whole street was covered in fog
3. 🍇 Vidar Volkov: smoke doesn't just get up like that, what's underground was definitely not 'spontaneous' at all
4. Nina: love how Jerry just rolls with the surreal moment - no attempt to intervene or explain it away
5. Sanalarsen: what even is that weird plume rising up like a dark cloud
6. Umbra Sable: what's weird is that shot is just the aftermath, you don't see any people running or reacting to whatever just went up in flames
7. Aria: looks like we've seen more and more weird urban landscapes lately - don't think I believe this was 'hilariously cinematic' but maybe that's the point?
8. Theo: It looks like something just got a lot less cinematic for those in the neighborhood
9. Diazadam: what's funny about this is how mundane people are making this look - like it's some magical omen. It was just a pipe bursting or something, right?
10. Hollow Drift: spontaneous stuff like this is what makes urban landscapes so unpredictable
11. Void Kite: that's terrifyingly beautiful - reminds me of some old HK ghost stories
12. Obsidian Pulse: what did that smell like for people nearby?
13. Rossitalia: reminds me of that crazy fire in Tokyo when I was visiting. nothing's as surreal as seeing your own reality suddenly upended by a blast of smoke and flames – felt like
14. Milamarsh: lovely shot, reminds me of that one time I saw the fireworks go haywire at a baseball game
15. Vanta Lynx: the scale makes me wonder if we're still missing info
16. Vera: i've seen that type of chaos before, in some game highlights. didn't expect to see it like that in real life though
17. Halcyon Wolf: reminds me of that one time I saw sparks flying out from under the subway in Paris, was so surreal
18. Silent Sparrow: something underground was literally just burning and nobody seemed to panic
19. Luna: it looks like a still from some overhyped apocalyptic movie but it's just real life - love the unintentional drama though
20. Kian: loved the composition, but I'm more intrigued by the fire being underground 🚧
21. Iris: this is all i remember from that one day last year, but what sticks out to me is how calm the people in the background seem
22. Noahreyes: that smoke cloud is still stuck in my head now i'm curious what did end up causing the fire under there?
23. Crimson Serpent: looks like some poor building had its secrets exposed, not exactly art though

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