Behind the Lens: Photographing the chaos and confusion of 9/11
3 years, 3 months ago

Behind the Lens: Photographing the chaos and confusion of 9/11

Al Jazeera  

Stan Honda reflects on the death and destruction he witnessed and some of the iconic images he captured that day. On the day of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, I photographed a woman covered in dust after one of the towers fell. It was the one frame I took of her as people took shelter in a building lobby from the giant cloud of dust and debris that had enveloped the area after the first tower collapsed. I went towards a nearby office building where I could see a police officer ushering people in and joined them to escape the smoke. Michel Moutot, who was AFP’s New York bureau chief – where I worked out of – and I arranged to meet Borders at her apartment in Bayonne, New Jersey on March 8, 2002.

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Before and After: Indian Photographer's Exhibition Recalls Horror of 9/11
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Before and After: Indian Photographer's Exhibition Recalls Horror of 9/11

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When Kamal Sharma was clicking pictures of the World Trade Center on September 10, 2001 he could not have imagined he was capturing the last images of the iconic twin towers that dominated the Manhattan skyline and were destined to turn into a symbol of one of the world”s worst tragedies the very next day. As the Indian photojournalist learnt …

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