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Interactive photo essay Fire explores grief, mourning, and remembrance. When photographer Aaron Vincent Elkaim learned that his grandparents’ cabin had burned down, he captured the damage on film. Although both of Elkaim’s grandparents were long dead, the cabin had been preserved just as they left it. Web visitors are invited to wander around the cabin through a collection of Elkaim’s high-fidelity photographs. Elkaim intersperses first person recollections between photos, providing background on his grandparents and their relationship with his family.