9/11 #64: Met extra droge sprinklers!

Hoe kom je er bij dat er veel amateuropnamen zijn waarop de vliegtuigen te zien zijn? Als jij ze kunt vinden, dan slaag je in iets wat niemand tot op de dag van vandaag is gelukt. Nagenoeg alle beelden komen van (semi) professionals.

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Op donderdag 6 september 2012 20:32 schreef Blue_Panther_Ninja het volgende:

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Er waren wel vliegtuigen,maar niet commerciële

Dus hebben ze de niet commerciële vliegtuigen op de beelden vervangen door commerciële?

En wat is er dan met de passagiers gebeurd die in de commerciële vliegtuigen gezeten zouden hebben?

[ Bericht 6% gewijzigd door #ANONIEM op 06-09-2012 20:47:32 ]

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Op donderdag 6 september 2012 21:03 schreef THEFXR het volgende:
van die 3000 doden, hoeveel waren er echt en hoeveel vicsims?

Geen idee

HOLY SHIT version (@3:19) : NO HOLY SHIT version (gelijk vanaf het begin):
Zeg het maar? Een grappenmaker die onder een van de filmpjes een andere audiotrack heeft gezet? Neuh... allebei de filmpjes zijn afkomstig uit de NIST FOIA 911datasets.org.

Deze is ook wel leuk:

Check dit filmpje met het geluid aan vanaf 0:49 - 0:54:


Je ziet een stuk metaal (?) vanuit de rookpluim naar beneden komen zetten, maar kijk naar de absurde bocht en hoever het vanaf het gebouw neerkomt. Let ook vooral op het absurde geluid. Alsof iemand een steeksleutel op de grond gooit.



[ Bericht 1% gewijzigd door #ANONIEM op 06-09-2012 21:54:53 ]

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Op donderdag 6 september 2012 21:45 schreef Gray het volgende:
Hoe in de loop van 7/8 jaar na dato de 45(!) 'amateurbeelden' zijn opgedoken:
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Betrouwbaarheid van de 'amateurbeelden'?
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Amateurs?

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De lijst is nog veel langer:

http://letsrollforums.com(...)-t25489.html?t=25489

En zelfs die is verre van compleet.

En dan deze comment:

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I didn't even know this guy Richard Drew was also called in for the assassination of Robert Kennedy like the OP posted about him. A professional photographer being at a major "untimed" event right before it happened one time in his life would be hitting lotto but this guy ends up at 2? Dont know any info on him but that's probably a minimum of 2 if you looked at his resume. That's the opposite of a coincidence. That's an assignment or job.

En deze:

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Allow me to play devil's advocate don't you think that most photographers (especially with nothing to do) in the world are centered in NYC? It "could" have been fate for some of the photogs to be in the area. NYC is the home of B&H Photo, the world's photography mega store, hell, if I worked there I would steal the best camera I could get my hands on and run down there and worry about the consequences later... but im crazy...

But yea, I agree, too many of these guys and gals have past connections to events where they were in the right place at the right time, and again on 9/11? And the angles, the elaborate stories...

But honestly I don't believe the coincidences... I have pictures from that day too but being someone on "the outside" of the plot, I sure as shit was not in the right place at the right time to get these types of photos, only getting pictures of the aftermath... like... it was over very quickly when thinking about it in retrospect... how did these people with such good equipment be there within minutes, literally?

Very good post and research.

Thank you.

[ Bericht 23% gewijzigd door #ANONIEM op 06-09-2012 21:59:40 ]

People just simply assume that most of the pictures taken on 9/11 were taken by amateurs and your average man in the streets. You will find that those pictures are hard to find. It turns out most of the images that we've seen on TV, the newspapers and the ones posted on the Internet after the attack were taken by professionals. Okay, so what?

In NYC, I would expect a fair number of professional photographers to show up at the scene of such a major disaster but a lot of them seem to have been in key positions from the start of the attack. In order to see if my theory is correct, the first thing to do is to try to identify all of the photographers and who they work for. Magnum Photographers is a name that comes up a lot. Let's see if any other patterns emerge?

SEAN ADAIR
Founder of ADAIR film & Video productions. Consultant in digital media and visual effects.

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Sean Adair has been shooting film and video for over 15 years, and still photography for over 25 years. Born in NYC, educated in New Zealand, and with travel to over 40 countries under his belt, he brings a wealth of experience to every shoot. Producing educational material, documentary, and art films, he is also a hands on director, editor and cinematographer.

His camerawork can be seen in the "Beef" video series, 16mm feature release documentary “Rhyme and Reason”, NBC’s Emmy award winning special “Mystery of the Sphinx”, and hundreds of commercials, documentaries and corporate videos.

Sean's art and journalistic photography have been published internationally, and he also serves as a consultant for many firms in the arcane arts of developing interactive digital media and visual effects.

Source: http://www.adairproductions.com/bio.html

BILL BIGGART
A photographer, who had worked for agencies like Reuters, Agence France Press, Sipa Press, Impact Visuals. (Vicsim?)



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Larger than life

The path that eventually led Bill to the World Trade Center the morning of 9/11 took him through Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Berlin, and deep into the heart of racism in his own country. He never stopped moving until the end.

As a spot news photographer, Bill chose to cover stories that most interested him, not the ones an editor selected. He focused on presenting the minority side – the Palestinians in the Middle East, the Catholic/IRA “troubles” in Ireland, and the issues of natives, blacks and gays in America.

Bill was born in Berlin in 1947, the pacifist son of a conservative Army officer. Raised in a rambunctious family of 12 children, Bill grew up learning to express his opinion - loudly and demonstrably if needed. Politics was often a heated topic of conversation and it affected his life at an early age. His family was forced to leave Berlin on one of the last trains before the Berlin Wall was erected.

In New York, Bill worked as a commercial photographer, while also pursuing his passion for photojournalism. In 1973, he went to Wounded Knee to cover the American Indian protest movement. He somehow got past the FBI perimeter and was captured by the besieged protestors who assumed he was a federal agent. His gift for gab got him released, but some of his film was confiscated.

In 1985, Bill received his first press card and immediately closed his studio. He left commercial photography behind and entered the world of black and white photojournalism. He hated color and only came back to it when he grudgingly accepted digital photography methods.

Over the years following, Bill photographed racism in New York, the KKK in the South, the Palestinian uprising and refugee camps in Israel, the life of people in Northern Ireland, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. He was one of the first members of a cooperative photo agency, Impact Visuals, which was devoted to issues of social change and alternative news.

Aside from photography, Bill loved gardening, planting street trees in New York, sailing his boat, listening to Yankee games with his sons, and living in the center of what he considered the greatest city on earth. He died there at the age of 54. A life fully, fiercely and passionately lived.

Bill is survived by his wife, Wendy Doremus, and three children – Bill Jr., Kate and Peter

Source: http://www.billbiggart.com/about.html

MOSHE BURSUKER
BFA degree in sculpture and photography from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford.

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Moshe Bursuker received his BFA degree in sculpture and photography from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford. It was there when he first began working with glass. After leaving Hartford, Moshe continued to pursue his artistic endeavors as a glass artist. He attended Urban Glass, Pilchuck Glass School and the Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, where he has worked with world's renowned glass artists.

Source: http://www.moshebursuker.com/bio.php

KATHY CACICEDO
Director/Producer/Director of Photography/Editor/Photographer/Graphic Designer

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Kathy Cacicedo has worked for non profits to Fortune 500 companies for the past 15 years. She has been lucky enough to be able to combine her talents in graphic design and photography on many "soup to nuts" projects... developing a company identity, designing all printed and online materials, incorporating her photography into the entire package and most recently being able to provide film and video to accompany the entire package should the client desire.

As a photographer Kathy Cacicedo gained international attention and the 2002 NY Art Directors Club Merit Award for her historic photo of Flight 175 seconds before it's impact on the World Trade Center, as well as Best Feature Photo from the Syracuse Press Club for her photo of "The morning After" - September 12

As a designer she won the 2002 Bronze Award for Website Design from the Art Directors Club of New Jersey for the website of latin music group CTO..

Finally making the jump to film and video, in 2002 she formed her own production company -BuenaOnda Pictures. One of BuenaOnda's first projects - a music video for latin group CTO "Prendele la Mecha" won the BEST MUSIC VIDEO award at the Garden State Film Festival and the NY International Film Festival.

In 2006 she was honored with the first annual "Shooting Star" award from the Garden State Film Festival where VAN VORST PARK starring Frank Vincent (Sopranos), directed by Cacicedo won the BEST HOMEGROWN SHORT.

Kathy wears "alot of hats"...including being manager of latin music sensation Los Mamboteros. You never know where she will be ...shooting photos- designing SOMETHING or out there working on her next film project - a documentary on Harvey Averne - winner of the first grammy for latin music....when she needs a break you will find her dropping in on an Australian in Puerto Rico at Domes on her flourescent green boogie board.

She lives happily behind the statue - with Hollywood Riley.

Source: http://www.kcphotographer.com/pagemainabout.html

CHRISTOPHER CASCIANO
Freelance Front End Web Developer. Sometimes Photographer.
Source: http://cascianoart.com/



DEVIN CLARK
computer graphics animator. Clients: Comedy Central, MTV, TCM and HBO.

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Be it comics, film, illustration or animation Devin Clark has a passion for telling stories, and the stranger the better. Devin has been involved with a broad range of projects including work for HBO, MTV, Comedy Central, TCM, and The Cartoon Network applying his design and narrative skills to everything from network graphics to traditional cartoons. His films and animation have been featured in Stash Magazine, Animation Block Party, Rooftop Films, Ottawa Film Festival, Platform, and BDA. He is presently acting as producer/director on his original animated TV series, Ugly Americans, for Comedy Central.

ROBERT CLARK
National Geographic photographer based in New York City. Works with the world's leading magazines including Time, Sports Illustrated, French Geo, Vanity Fair, Stern, Der Spiegel.

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Based in New York City, Robert Clark is a freelance photographer known for his innovation. He works with some of the world's leading magazines and publishing houses and on cutting-edge advertising campaigns.

Early in his career, Clark left the comfort and familiarity of newspapers to join H. G. "Buzz" Bissenger, author of Friday Night Lights, in documenting the lives of high-school football players and devotion to the game in Odessa, Texas. Bissenger's best-selling book was later made into a major motion picture as well as an NBC television series.

In 2003, an assignment with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, took Clark back to Texas to capture the first year of a new NFL team, the Houston Texans. The documentary and portraiture project resulted in one of the museum's most popular exhibits and the publication of a collectable, black-and-white photo book, First Down Houston: Birth of an NFL Franchise.

Clark was commissioned by Sony Ericsson to travel the United States for 50 days to document the beauty and diversity of America with only a cell-phone camera. This unique ad campaign, which was Clark's brainchild, generated a tremendous amount of coverage in major newspapers and on TV news programs. American Photo also featured each leg of his trip on the Web. His book about the assignment, Image America, developed into a gallery exhibit in New York City and became the first ever published photography book using cell-phone camera images.

Clark's work has won numerous awards. His coverage of the attack on the World Trade Center, witnessed from his rooftop in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, was recognized at the World Press Photo awards in Amsterdam. He also received a National Magazine Award for "Best Essay" for his National Geographic cover article, "Was Darwin Wrong?"

His photographs have graced some 40 book covers and more than a dozen National Geographic covers. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Time, Sports Illustrated, GEO, Vanity Fair, Stern, and Der Spiegel.

Currently involved in a variety of projects, Clark continues his association with National Geographic and is working on a book documenting the birth of the science of evolution. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, Lai Ling.

Source: www.robertclarkphoto.com

CLIFTON CLOUD
Events manager at Scharff Weisberg, Inc., a NYC-based video production company, whose slogan reads: “Whether you're looking to dazzle the ears, mind or eyes, we've got the latest equipment and the expertise to make it work for you.”




Source: http://www.netprospex.com/people/CLIFTON-CLOUD/16939975

LUC COURCHESNE
3D visual arts expert. Inventor of “Panoscope360”, a sophisticated 3-D installation which simulates “alternative life experiences”

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Luc Courchesne took part in the emergence of media arts thirty years ago when, as a video artist inspired by a generation of experimental filmmakers such as Michael Snow and Hollis Frampton, he adopted computer technologies. First delving into interactive portraiture, a great artistic tradition re-articulated in a new mould, his work has recently turned to another important genre, that of landscape. With his installations, "panoscopic" images, and a device of his own making used to create a sense of visual immersion, he transforms spectators into a visitors, actors and inhabitants of his experiential crafts.

Born 1952 in Québec, Courchesne received a Bachelor's degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax (1974), and a Master of Science in Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (1984). He began his explorations in interactive video in 1984 when he co-authored Elastic Movies, one of the earliest experiments in the field, and since produced about 30 installation works and image series including Encyclopedia Chiaroscuro (1987), Portrait One (1990), Family Portrait (1993), Hall of Shadows (1996), Landscape One (1997), Passages (1998.), Rendez-vous... (1999), Panoscopic Journal (1999), Panoscope 360° (2000), The Visitor: Living by Numbers (2001), Untitled (2004), Where are you? (2005), Horizons (2007), the Shores Series (2008.) and Icons (2009) in a co-creation with artist and choreographer Marie Chouinard.

His work is part of major collections in North America, Europe and Asia and has been shown extensively in galleries and museums worldwide including: Sydney's Art Gallery of New South Wales, New York's Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo's InterCommunication Center (ICC), Paris' La Villette, Karlsruhe's ZKM/Medienmuseum, Montreal?s Musée d'art contemporain, the National Gallery of Canada, Barcelona?s Fundacion La Caixa and Beijing?s National Art Museum of China.

Based in Montreal, Luc Courchesne is professor of design at Université de Montréal, founding member of the Society for Art and Technology [SAT], board member of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. He is represented by the galery Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain in Montreal and by the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in New York.

Source: http://courchel.net/

LUKE CREMIN

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Luke Cremin — amateur photographer

"This image just prior to the plane impact with the South tower still, a year later, puts a shiver down my spine. Image taken from Atlantic Basin due South of the site of the WTC."

Contributor's location on 9/11: Brooklyn, New York
Cite as: Luke Cremin, Image #1200, The September 11 Digital Archive, 10 September 2002, http://911digitalarchive.org/images/details/1200

RICHARD DREW
Falling Man picture - He was one of only four photographers in the kitchen of the Los Angeles hotel when Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed.
AP Photographer

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Richard Drew is an Associated Press photo-journalist, perhaps most notable for his photo The Falling Man which depicts a man falling from the World Trade Center towers following the September 11, 2001 attacks. A British documentary "The Falling Man" about the photo premiered on the Discovery Times channel on September 10, 2007.

Drew was one of four press photographers present at the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.[1] Drew has been an Associated Press photographer for 40 years, and lives with his wife and two daughters in New York City.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...hotographer%29

CHIP EAST
Photojournalist for Reuters & buddy of Bill Biggart (http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0111/biggart_intro.htm)

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Photojournalist Chip East has been focusing on news, features and documentary projects for 20 years. He has taken pictures across the United States and throughout the Middle East, Europe and Latin America for an array of clients. Based in New York for more than a decade, he currently works largely for the international news agency Reuters, concentrating on breaking news.
Source: http://www.chipeast.com/

ARISTIDE ECONOMOPOULOS
Staff Photojournalist at The Star-Ledger. The man who has the teleporting device.









In the above picture is Aris caught on film while running away from the collapsing building. Still he managed to get to Hoboken to shoot some more pictures! :applause: :lol:

For more Aris photo's and info, visit: http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0111/aris11.htm and http://nyppa.org/aris-911

EVAN FAIRBANKS
On 9/11, worked for KSK VIDEO STUDIOS, New York City: “Creative programming solutions for television, interactive and multimedia.” Photographer with world renowned Magnum agency.



ROBERT FISCH
Not much info on Robert Fisch. At least not the person I am looking for. Real person or a fabricated identity???

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My name is Robert. I was having breakfast at
Joe Junior's in the West Village when a crowd starting to form outside. In
short order, we learned the World Trade had suffered some catastrophe.

After taking a look at the black gash in the facade of the building, I
abandoned breakfast and ran to my apartment across the street and grabbed my
camera. It was loaded and ready (I'd just gotton back from Florida
several days before).

I snapped a few pictures and saw the second plane in my viewfinder. I
snapped it instinctively. I had no idea it was going to hit the south tower.

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My camera was trained on the towers when the second plane
came into view. The picture I took of the airplane should be in the repository.

As viewed from the north, the plane appeared to vanish. When the building
erupted in flame, I still had this "disconnect" in my mind and at first
refused to believe the plane I'd just seen hit the building. After a few
seconds when the sound wave reached us, it was fairly clear that was what
happened.

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After my first shot of the fireball, I was frozen like I was in a trance.
Everything seemed to be happening in slow motion.

When the sound wave reached us (it sounded just like in the movies,
only not so loud---then again, I was probably 2 miles away)....it
brought me back to reality and I snapped this picture.

RUTH FREMSON
New York Times Photographer

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I was in Flushing, Queens, taking photographs at polling places for the primary election that day. When I was paged I drove behind a caravan of at least 10 emergency vehicles to the vicinity of the World Trade Center, where the police indicated that I should park a couple of blocks away. I did, on Church Street.

I walked to the corner of Vesey and Church Streets and photographed some of the wounded.

Across the street, police and emergency workers were evacuating a building. The towers were burning, the smoke billowing. Suddenly, I heard a loud noise and thought another plane was going to hit the towers. I looked up, trying to photograph the building, and realized it was imploding.

People were running and screaming, and when I saw emergency personnel also running I ran with them. I heard a loud rumbling and followed a man who rolled under a Police Department truck.

All of a sudden, we were engulfed by a tidal wave of black dust and chunks of rocklike particles. I held onto the arm of a man under there with me, not realizing he was a police officer. I opened my eyes but couldn’t see anything. Everything was completely black. My eyes were burning. I couldn’t breathe, and I wondered for a second if this was what death was like.

The officer asked if I was O.K. I said yes. We heard glass breaking nearby and heard someone yelling “hello.” He was calling us to come into the Stage Door Deli maybe 10 feet away from where we were. The officer, Dan Mullin, grabbed my hand and pulled me in there. Inside were some firefighters completely covered in white ash, an elderly man with an accent and a cap and a man in a business suit, who stumbled in with a younger woman. They were O.K. A young woman was very frightened and near tears. One woman, an emergency worker, was just standing, stunned. Some of the firefighters passed out water, and it was first a man, then a woman calling for Pete, the owner.

But there was no one who worked in the store, only us, helping ourselves to his water and napkins to wipe ourselves off, spitting water on the floor. We used the phone, too, taking turns.

I saw firefighters walking through the ash and dust that clouded the air and then saw some police officers with shotguns. As the cloud slowly cleared we could see one tower standing. A chilling sight. A bit later we heard the rumbling again. And then it began to get dark outside again.

We all ran to the back of the deli and down some steps into the basement, where we waited.

When smoke started coming up from the basement, we decided to leave. One of the emergency personnel gave us wet rags to breathe through.

Just south of City Hall everything was covered with ash. Black smoke was billowing behind a church, and it looked as if only emergency personnel and journalists were there. The sun was shining through the dust over the Brooklyn Bridge, which carried an exodus of people across it toward the sunshine. Some looked back; others were crying, and others were stunned.

I saw two fashionable women, wearing matching blue towels draped over their heads, walking their matching dogs over the bridge.

Today we are publishing a handful of personal accounts by journalists who covered the Sept. 11 attacks for The Times. This one was originally published Sunday, Sept. 16, 2001.

Source: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/20...age-door-deli/

ANGEL FRANCO
New York Times Photographer (http://partners.nytimes.c(...)o-journal-index.html)



KELLY GUENTHER
Pulitzer Prize winning photo-journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Time, Newsweek.

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Kelly is a Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist who now runs a successful wedding/events studio in NYC. We capture the true spirit of the wedding day. http://www.nycweddingphotographer.com

Source: http://twitter.com/#!/guentherphoto

DON HALASY
New York Post photographer





TAMARA BECKWITH
(born 17 April 1970) is an English socialite, noted for her coverage in glossy celebrity magazines such as OK! and Hello! magazine.


Source: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/911/911-docphotos.html

DAVID HANDSCHUH
Photojournalist for New York Daily News. Took picture of South Tower exploding right underneath it. No plane is seen in picture. He says he did not see any plane.

Handschuh followed a police radio call to the World Trade Center, where the first jet plane had just struck the north tower. He photographed the second plane as it crashed through the south tower, then felt the rumble of the collapsing building.

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"New York Daily News staff photographer David Handschuh was photographing the World Trade Centers while they were under attack. He was badly injured from falling debris. Fortunately, he survived, with some of his pictures being published in the Daily News. In this interview by Susan Markisz and Dirck Halstead, David gives a vivid account of his experience."
Source: http://digitaljournalist.org/issue01..._handschuh.htm

ROB HOWARD
Photo of Flight 175 hitting WTC 2
Professional award-winning photographer.
Photo of Flight 175 hitting WTC 2

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While studying comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Toronto,
Rob purchased his first camera in a pawnshop and started photographing fashion models.
Within a year, he had moved to Sydney to develop his career under the hot Australian sun.

A move to Paris followed where Rob received a prestigious commission to photograph
the royal family of Morocco. That experience broadened his focus to include portraiture
and travel photography. Shortly thereafter, he was assigned to go to Tibet, Borneo and
northern India where he met and photographed the Dalai Lama over a three-week period.

Rob then relocated to New York City where magazine and advertising assignments
quickly followed.

Rob is recognized for his heroic portraits, energetic lifestyle shots and epic travel
adventures. His work has been honored by American Photography and Communication
Arts. He is also on the masthead of Condé Nast Traveler.

Rob lives between New York City and the Catskills with his wife, Lisa.
Source: http://www.robhowardphoto.com/gallery/delaware-county

JUSTIN LANE
New York Times Photographer



http://www.justinlane-photographer.com/

JOHN LABRIOLA
Amateur photographer and independent contractor with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

For many people, cameras are like diaries—a means to record minor as well as important details of daily life. John Labriola used his Nikon CoolPix digital camera to make this amazing record of one survivor’s view of the events of September 11. His photographs show the calm before the attack, the drama in the stairwell as workers evacuated and firefighters rushed to help, the carnage and destruction on the street, and finally his return home.
....

A few floors lower water was flowing creating rapids down the stairs. This got worse as we got lower down. The stairwell led down to an outside door lined with emergency workers urging us to move to safety. There was debris and broken glass everywhere. The courtyard where this outdoor landing led us onto must have been blocked or too dangerous for us to cross because we were directed back into that second floor balcony again and down two escalators into the mall under Tower 1. Water was falling everywhere - 8 to 10 inches in some places. Many of the stores had windows blown out. All along the way emergency workers urged us to keep moving.






http://americanhistory.si(...)ion/record.asp?ID=62

CHANG W. LEE
New York Times Photographer

quote:

Whether he is photographing the war in Afghanistan, chronicling the ravages of pollution in China or delighting in the Olympics in Sydney, Nagano or Beijing, Chang W. Lee takes lyrical and poetic pictures. He believes that everyone has a story to tell and that every story, no matter how painful, contains beauty.

"Someone shares his story with me," Mr. Lee said, "then it becomes my story. Then it becomes your story. Then it is history."

Starting as an intern at The New York Times in 1994, he has developed a unique photographic style that combines an impeccable sense of light with complicated composition and surprising juxtapositions.

Mr. Lee was a member of the teams that won the Pulitzer Prizes for photography in 2002: one for Breaking News Photography for coverage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the other for Feature Photography for documenting the pain and perseverance of people enduring protracted conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mr. Lee was also among the New York Times journalists who won the 2008 Grantham Prize for "Choking on Growth," a series that examined the effects of industrialization on the Chinese environment. In addition, he has won numerous awards in prestigious photographic competitions such as Pictures of the Year (POYI), the Best of Photojournalism (BOPJ) and the New York Press Photographers (NYPPA) annual contest.

Born in Pusan, Korea, in 1968, Mr. Lee came to the United States in 1986 and graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1993.

He is married to the graphic designer, Seolbin Park, with whom he has a son, Gio.

Source: http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/ref...lee/index.html

CATHERINE LEUTHOLD
Independent photojournalist

quote:

There are many unreal moments. At 9:50 am I stand in disbelief as the south tower collapses in front of my lens. It sounds like a jet taking off. I move slowly away towards the street when a huge grey cloud filled with debris slams into me and I almost fall. Watching it through my camera, I steal four frames, that I see later are a gray cloud with parts of a police car, a man running in front of it, and a blue police barricade. And then just nothing but suffocating blackness, muffled screams, moans, an "Oh my God", and my quiet terror.

I felt like I was being buried alive. I couldn't breath or see. I think, ahhh shit, this is it. But it isn't. I reach out and find a corner of marble of a wall in front of me and pull myself around it. I pull my shirt over my mouth and keep my eyes closed. I start talking, saying my name and that I'm a photographer over and over to keep the fear back. I ask if anyone is near me. Then arms and a voice find me and we talk quickly. I ask him who he is, what does he do, anything. I will always remember his voice, but I can't remember his name. That bothers me. There is no sense of time in this place, we hear a shout "Over here...a door." We struggle to find it in the blackness, and then there is a yellow light.

I see a ghostly face, a man wearing a Yarmulke, he pulls us into a computer shop. A woman screams her partner is still out there. The man has locked the door and I yell at him to open it. No one should be out there. There is no anwser outside, and I start taking pictures again.

Source: http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0110/voices06.htm

SEYMOUR LEVY
Advertising agency art director
Amateur Photographer

Next I ran to my office at 100 Sixth Avenue, four blocks north of the Canal Street station, where being an advertising agency art director, and photography being my avocation, I keep a camera at my desk. I grabbed the camera, raced outside my building and started documenting the devastation on film. With my telephoto lens I was able to zoom in on the flaming towers. Then the screaming directly behind me began. "They're jumping, my God, they're jumping from windows!" I turned around and began focusing my camera on the horrified expressions of the onlookers witnessing the calamity.

I was transfixed to the spot when I next saw one of the towers begin to buckle. It was as if some enormous invisible hand was pressing downward, crumbling the building with its sheer power. In mere seconds, in an awesome cloud of pulverizing smoke, suddenly there was no more World Trade Center. I was witnessing the impossible!

I was able to capture these terrible few moments on film with quick succession photos. http://americanhistory.si(...)upporting.asp?ID=621






KARIM RAOUL

quote:

Karim Raoul was born in 1978 and grew up in Nyack, New York. The son of a documentary filmmaker, he spent much of his childhood traveling throughout the world discovering new people and cultures. These experiences had a profound effect on his decision to attempt to capture the spirit of the world's ordinary peoples in their struggle to survive consequence and injustice.
Raoul later went on to study filmmaking at New York University where in addition to his studies, he worked as a cameraman on documentaries, narrative films, music videos and commercials. He was also a butcher and a cook, and in 2000 at the age of 21, opened his own multimedia restaurant.
During his experiences on Sept 11 he was once again touched by the the ordinary New Yorker in extraordinary circumstances. Raoul began taking photographs of the hidden life of everyday. He also continued to work as a cameraman and directed several of his own award winning short films.
In 2004, he became a key figure in setting up an international section of a film school in Paris, France and worked on over 60 short films. Continuing to take photographs on the streets of Paris, he matured in the technical craft of the still image and began selling his photographs to local publications.
Driven by a new found passion for photography, Raoul is now back in New York City in hopes of becoming a photojournalist.

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