A new photo project with work from Sofia Coppola, Jack Antonoff and more raises money for wildfire victims.

The cervid look pensive, astir similar they cognize what’s coming.

In “Family,” a black-and-white photograph from manager Spike Jonze, 2 of the animals look consecutive into the camera portion a 3rd looks up astatine 1 of them, framed connected a hillside overlooking a thenar histrion and downtown skyscrapers. Nature and urbanity uncomfortably thrust unneurotic — portion of the allure and information of Los Angeles.

After the devastating wildfires successful January, specified scenes are connected a batch of Angelenos’ minds. But truthful is vibrant escapism, aft the barrage of demolition we each witnessed. California Picture Project, a caller all-star, fine-art photograph bid and fundraiser from a radical of L.A. euphony executives and originative directors, makes country for each of it.

“When it initially happened, I deliberation we were each shell-shocked,” said Niki Roberton, the elder vice president of originative for RCA Records. “It displaced friends, parents astatine our daughter’s schoolhouse had mislaid their homes. We were hopeless to find a mode to volunteer. But we had Spike Jonze and Sofia Coppola and Dave Free, these unthinkable creatives that were keen to articulation us. This was the astir contiguous mode for our accomplishment sets to beryllium capable to help.”

The bid of prints — each up for acquisition astatine $150 from Feb. 28 to March 9 — collects twelve of donated images from dozens of fine-art photographers (Richard Kern, Petra Collins) and musicians (Kim Gordon, Jack Antonoff).

Some of the images are genuinely haunting documents of the catastrophe itself. Martine Syms’ “Luctor et Emergo” shows a burned-out fireplace from a charred home, spray-painted with “Mama Didn’t Raise No Quitters,” portion Maddy Rotman’s “Emily Outside the Altadena House” portrays a gestation successful a vicinity present synonymous with destruction.

But a batch of the shots are axenic abstractions oregon low-stakes personage snapshots. For mid-aughts nostalgists, you tin instrumentality location a Cobrasnake representation of Paris Hilton oregon Theo Liu’s drawback of Kylie Jenner being eaten by a immense bug.

Some are easygoing portraits of André 3000 playing flute for awed schoolhouse kids oregon manner icon Rick Owens lounging successful a elephantine unmade bed; there’s Danny Trejo eating grapes successful a Nadia Lee Cohen framework oregon Moses Sumney successful a affluent black-and-white aforesaid portrait. Others gully from A-list originative directors similar Stillz (known for moving with Bad Bunny) oregon decorator Wales Bonner.

The fires volition beryllium an tremendous taxable for creation successful the years to come, arsenic they claimed 2 neighborhoods with important ties to the euphony and originative industries. Famed signaling studios and working-class artists’ homes burned successful Pacific Palisades and Altadena. As brutal arsenic the fires were, they did punctual a large effort from wrong the euphony manufacture to assistance rebuild lives, including the monolithic FireAid payment performance and a Grammys focused connected recovery.

“It was specified a weird, crazy, scary mode to commencement the year.” said Joe Mortimer, a originative enforcement astatine Capitol Records. “Especially successful a metropolis that tin consciousness precise disconnected, I deliberation abruptly radical felt precise connected. It benignant of went from this fearfulness and uncertainty to optimism astir the community, and past optimism of what tin we bash to assistance and leverage with our acquisition successful what we do.”

The constituent of California Picture Project was not truthful overmuch to papers the demolition but to rise a ton of wealth to donate to the California Community Foundation Wildfire Recovery Fund portion reflecting the varied, planetary vantage points of artists with ties to L.A. They’re batting astir plans to crook the task into a book, but for now, a fewer mightiness adjacent beryllium candidates to bent connected a wall. Oliver Hadlee Pearch’s “Lyndsey Wixson, LA,” shows a beaming pistillate sitting successful a car, bursting to the brim with flowers.

“Ultimately, the extremity of this is to rise arsenic overmuch wealth arsenic possible, but wrong the discourse of everything that’s been going connected here,” said Cameron Parkins, an creator manager with All Our Dreams. “It’s a good enactment to walk, but the photographers did thing truly astonishing wrong that.”