Culture · Selected by The Southwood Independent

Drawing the heat: Paris from street level

Art can show whose experience gets left outside the climate headline.

Source report · 15 September 2026

The story

The linked AP feature follows illustration documenting the effects of extreme heat on unhoused people in Paris.

Southwood perspective

Marina Antonova's drawings translate extreme heat from statistics into observed human experience. By focusing on unhoused people in Paris, the work records who absorbs the harshest consequences when a beautiful city becomes physically hostile. Southwood chose the story because illustration can function as reporting: slower than a photograph, more subjective, but capable of preserving details that conventional climate coverage often leaves outside the frame.