Brent Nicholls
  • WELCOME
  • BLOG

Tag Archives: 2018

NEW YORK: 21 YEARS LATER

Posted on March 13, 2018 by bmncreative Posted in PHOTOGRAPHY, TRAVELS

In 1997 I visited New York, and like most tourists of the day went downtown to go to the top of the World Trade Center.

Lucky for me, the weather was fine and clear, so they actually allowed us out onto the roof.

5 years later, that building laid in dust after America’s worst terror attack. Broadcast live across the world 2 billion watched as the iconic building crumbled after planes flew into the towers, a terror plot from Al Queda.

21 years later I had a chance to visit New York again and went to that same site. Now the site is a memorial to those who died on that day.

Two waterfall fountains lie on the footprint of the original buildings and below the memorial pays tribute and remembers with personal stories, a collection of artwork, artefacts and new clips.

 

I’ll never forget that day.

These photos are from Freedom Tower, WTC1 and the Occulus (built over the former subway where so many first responders died as the building collapsed). I did not take photos inside the actual memorial & museum. I thought that would have been disrespectful.

Memorial Fountain
Freedom Tower
A rose is placed on a person name on their birthdasy
Freedom Tower
New York downtown from Empire State
Memorial Foutain
Freedom Tower
Freedon tower
The Oculus
Freedom Tower
A rose symbolises the person birthday
Freedom Tower & Oculus
Memorial Fountain

 

Trending

2015 2016 2018 AEGEAN SEA AFRICA BERMUDA CANADA CRIMSON LAKE DISMALAND EU IBIZA IZNAJAR LONDON NEW YORK OKAVANGE DELTA Photography PRAGUE Safari SNOW South Africa SUNSETS THE ROCKIES
© Brent Nicholls / BMN Creative