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My Homage to 9/11 – “Looking On, Watching the Building of the Freedom Tower”

I remember the day as if yesterday. I was home at the time. A friend of mine called me on his way to work saying that a plane flew into one of the World Trade Towers. I then grabbed my camera and went to the roof of my building in the East Village to haveContinue reading “My Homage to 9/11 – “Looking On, Watching the Building of the Freedom Tower””

Homage To 9/11 – “Looking On, Watching the Building of the Freedom Tower”

Every day, thousands of tourists take snapshots of the World Trade Center site in Manhattan’s busy Financial District, where the cloud-piercing One World Trade Center tower has been under construction since 2006. But it’s rare that these camera-wielding visitors get photographed themselves. In his series Looking On: Watching the Building of the Freedom Towers, photographerContinue reading “Homage To 9/11 – “Looking On, Watching the Building of the Freedom Tower””

A Tribute To 9/11 – “Looking On, Watching the Building of the Freedom Tower”

About two years ago the company I work for was located downtown in the Financial District, not far from the site of the World Trade Towers. For close to three years, I worked on a self motivated project to photograph the visitors to “Ground Zero”. Those visitors also were witnessing the rebuilding of the WorldContinue reading “A Tribute To 9/11 – “Looking On, Watching the Building of the Freedom Tower””

9/11

This was a series I worked on for over two years, documenting the visitors to The World Trade Center site and the building of the “Freedom Tower”. I have nothing to add to that day 14 years ago. If you were a New Yorker, or a commuter, living or working downtown, we all share ourContinue reading “9/11”

Time.com – Looking Up: A Photographer Captures World Trade Center Tourists

http://time.com/3329648/photography-world-trade-center-tourists-keith-goldstein/ “What I wanted to do was capture peoples emotions of grief, despair, happiness, awe, longing, hoping — as many diverse emotions as there are people” Photographer Keith Goldstein never found lower Manhattan that interesting to look at until he noticed where New Yorkers and tourists themselves were looking — up, where the new WorldContinue reading “Time.com – Looking Up: A Photographer Captures World Trade Center Tourists”