Leaving Today 1

I came to photography in 2001 in New York, where I actually only wanted to work as a writing journalist for a year. But then the September 11 attacks happened and photography became important to me. When the second tower of the World Trade Center collapsed, I was standing just a few blocks away. All of downtown was evacuated by the police that day and I left Manhattan on foot across the Brooklyn Bridge with ten thousand other people. Before that, however, I bought five rolls of film at a deli on the corner, because I had my camera with me and I held on to it – even in the weeks that followed when fighter planes were suddenly patrolling over the city and US flags were hoisted everywhere. That was my start.

2013
41 photographs in black and white and color. Photographs taken in New York between 2001 and 2003. All 8 color images were taken on September 11, 2001. Landscape format. 44 pages, 1000 copies