Forbidden Spaces: WTC Construction
Forbidden Spaces: WTC Construction
On the night of 9/11 this year I went down to ground zero to try and get a different angle on the memorial tribute.
Around 1:30am, I was the only person in the neighborhood except for police and a skeleton crew of construction workers. I struck up a conversation with a passing worker, asking about the specks of what looked like huge glitter in the beams of light (which turned out to be thousands of birds who deviated from their natural migratory patterns).
I spent about half an hour talking with my new friend about many things New York, and people we knew who were lost in the towers almost a decade ago; at which point he turned to me and said, “Would you like a tour of the site?”
The next hour or so I was treated to a clandestine perspective of the construction that very few get to see. This is my favorite image from my time inside the site.
(image is shot from the base of what used to be Tower 2, looking 4 floors underground into the sub-structure construction – The tribute lights are actually 2 blocks south of the site this year because they can’t put them on the actual site – due to construction).
At the request of the nameless worker who gave me the tour, I waited a month to publish the image.
