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9/11 RETROSPECTIVE

A year out from the 20 year anniversary of 9/11, I was able to locate pictures I had taken during that time.  One beautiful thing of that horrific event was how it brought people and a city together.  From all walks of life, nonsense and self importance was set aside for a week while compassion, respect and kindness were overflowing.  It's with great hope that our country can find it's way back to those qualities which make us great.  

 

By chance I was living in NYC at the time of 9/11.   Living in the West Village, I heard the first plane fly over my apartment and shortly thereafter I heard a loud bang.  Seeing the news on TV, I grabbed my 3.34 state of the art megapixel DSLR and ran outside.  My office was in Soho next to the Lincoln Tunnel which afforded me some incredible views.   I shot continually around the area for the next 4 days.   Click below to be taken to my retrospective of that time.  

That Morning

That Afternoon

That Evening

That Evening

The Next Day

The Next Evening

The Following Days

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We are all together in this painful world, but because of that, this really organic, deep seated sense of compassion arises that puts us together. And in the midst of the chaos and pain and the suffering, that is exactly where the very very pure white flower of compassion arises and blossoms. Nowhere else but in the muddy water. 

- Hajime Issan Koyama from StoryCorps.org

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