Heatwaves and Homelessness in Paris | Johannesburg News

Paris’s blistering summer heat, pushing past 40°C, has become a haunting visual reality through Marina Antonova’s digital illustrations, Chronicles of a Heating Planet. Her vivid, acidic-yellow artworks expose the brutal toll on homeless residents forced to endure sweltering nights with no escape — a crisis mirrored in wildfires choking southern Europe and over 7,000 excess deaths. Once a refugee from Russia herself, Antonova draws from personal experience to depict climate change not as a distant threat, but as an urgent, visceral present — calling her pieces “anti-postcards” that challenge the city’s romanticized image. Working fluidly on her iPad, she turns smartphone snapshots into searing commentary on how everyday life is unraveling under a warming planet. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Sources:https://www.sowetan.co.za/news/world/2026-09-15-artist-captures-how-summer-heatwaves-hit-paris-and-its-homeless-so-hard/ More coverage & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/6913c7892e692c56 Report issues to [email protected].