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Tens of thousands have been forced to leave their homes to escape the flames. Photographer Rachel Bujalski meets evacuees

At the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa, California, Michelle and Carlos Jacinto sat in their car at the fairgrounds to eat lunch and take a break from their designated temporary evacuation center. They left their home in Forestville two nights ago, as .

They packed up the car with their dogs, pictures and important papers. Michelle and Carlos had come to this evacuation center last year during the fires, but they said this time was different: they were required to wear masks and keep distant from other people in a gymnasium.

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As I mention in the Authors Note at the back of The Paris Orphan , I first heard of Lee Miller when I was researching my previous book, . There was a throwaway line in an article that mentioned Miller and other female war correspondents who, after World War II had ended, had not been able to continue working as serious journalists because the men had returned from overseas and taken all of the available jobs.

Vogue .

That article was the start of my fascination with her. I went looking for more. And I found a story so incredible I couldnt help but be inspired by it.

Miller the Photojournalist

Miller was a photojournalist for Vogue during World War II. She took some extraordinary photographs: she stumbled upon the battle for Saint-Malo in France and photographed the U.S. Armys first use of napalm there. She reported from Paris, Luxembourg, Alsace, Colmar, Aachen, Cologne, Frankfurt and Torgau, among other places. She was one of the first to document the horrors of the Dachau concentration camp. And she was the subject of an iconic photograph, bathing in Hitlers bathtub in his Munich apartment, having left her filthy boots to drop the dirt of Dachau, as she put it, all over the Fuhrers pristine white bathroom.

Miller the Model

But Lee Miller started on the other side of the lens. She was discovered by Cond Nast on the streets of Manhattan and became a famous model for magazines like Vogue

Just as Cond Nast discovers Lee Miller, he also discovers Jess in The Paris Orphan and Jess is one of his favorite models, as Miller was. However, to suit my story better, I moved time forward to begin Jesss modeling career in the early 1940s.

Millers modeling career ended when a photograph of her was used by Kotex in an advertisement for sanitary pads. Its so hard to imagine that this could end a career, but it did. To be seen as the Kotex Girl was a stigma so dreadful that no magazine wanted to use pictures of Miller again. So Miller moved to France, where she became Man Rays lover. He helped her develop her photography skills and she became a well-regarded surrealist photographer.

I used these elements when creating Jesss character too. Jess has to stop modeling after a photograph of her is used by Kotex, Jess has a French photographer as a lover, and solarization is a trademark of her work, as it was Millers.

The Intersection of Fiction and Reality

Miller actually reported for British Vogue during the war, although many of her pieces appeared in American Vogue too. For ease of the story, I have Jess working for American Vogue in The Paris Orphan .

Jess follows in Millers footsteps in The Paris Orphan , working out of a field hospital when she first arrives in France after D-Day. I have given the room used by Lee Miller at the Hotel Scribe in Paris to Jess, complete with a balcony piled high with fuel cans and an acquaintance with Picasso. Miller is called la femme soldat by the joyful Parisians after the city is liberated, as is Jess. Miller stays at Hitlers apartment in Munich and is photographed in Hitlers bath, as is Jess in The Paris Orphan .

After the War

One of the most heartbreaking parts of Millers story is what happened to her after the war. She suffered from post-traumatic stress after viewing and recording so many horrors, and she tried to forget that she was ever a witness to war and all its atrocities. So effective was she at excising this from her past that, when she died at age seventy, her son, Roland Penrose, had no idea of what she had done during the war. Her work was largely forgotten.

One day, Penroses wife found boxes of photographs and films in the attic at Farley Farm, Millers home. They contained Millers correspondence with her Vogue editor and wartime paraphernalia. Penrose immediately understood that he had made an incredible discovery, that his mother had been a true artist, and that her words and pictures hadonce upon a time, until she let the world forget themmeant something.

He resurrected Lee Miller and her work. She is now widely regarded as one of the worlds preeminent war correspondents and photographers. The idea that she had been all but forgotten haunted me, and this inspired the scenes set in contemporary times in The Paris Orphan , when DArcy Hallworth finds an attic full of photographs and an extraordinary legacy that should never have been lost to the past.

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The drone has a bigger image sensor and a variety of upgrades to keep photographers and video producers happy.

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Architectural photographer has released a new photoseries of , a luxury apartment in Midtown Manhattan designed by . Inspired by classic skyscrapers of the 1920s, the architects reimagined NoMads Neo-Gothic and Art Deco architecture and designed a structure with a "distinctive lattice crown" that blends two architectural eras with the citys iconic skyline.

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