New York - 9/11/2001 - Redux
9/11 Redux
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These images were made in part as a reaction to the much-bandied meme, "Never Forget" - which originally entered the lexicon, I am told, in relation to the Holocaust.
It was appropriated years later on September 11th, 2001 and has become a mantra and a marketing tool for politicians and merchandisers alike.
As an adopted New Yorker, I saw daily the stripping away of the physical memory of that day, but the visual echoes still resonated, spectral-like, monochrome. Whenever I have been back in NYC on September 11th, I walk the same route as I did in 2001, down to the Twin Towers from my Greenwich Village home. Sometimes I walk the route with my photographer friends Oskar Landi and Neville Elder, who both ran downtown that day, sharing our remembrances, pushing each other to recall the details.
I often carry my black and white contact sheets of images from 2001 as a frame of reference to the locations, rephotographing the same spots, but as each year passes, it becomes more and more difficult to see where the past was...
Published in Tablet Magazine