The exhibition depicts the rescue and recovery efforts following the terrorists attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. It is sponsored by the United States Embassy in cooperation with The College of The Bahamas and will run through July 18.
Organised by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the travelling exhibition allows as many people as possible worldwide to view what the artist called a “historical record” illustrating “an incredible enterprise of healing.” It includes 27 photographs.
About 2,800 people were buried under millions of tons of rubble when raging fires melted the skyscrapers’ steel frames, causing their collapse. The photos focus on the scene at “Ground Zero,” which rescuers and cleanup crews came to term the roughly 17-acre area in New York’s financial district where the towers once stood.
Meyerowitz, whose award-winning artistry has solidified his reputation as a “street photographer,” caught the agonizing first days and weeks of rescue, the recovery of bodies, and the demolition and excavation of the World Trade Centre towers.
The Nassau Guardian
