Witness at Ground Zero
Witness at Ground Zero: Photographs by Stephane Sednaoui documented the urgent rescue efforts underway at Ground Zero in the first few days following the 9/11 attacks.
About the Exhibition
Witness at Ground Zero draws on an archive of pictures by French photographer Stephane Sednaoui. After witnessing the attacks from his rooftop in New York City on September 11, he volunteered in the days that followed in the urgent rescue efforts underway at Ground Zero. A month shy of becoming a first-time father and with new life much on his mind, Sednaoui clung to the hope of locating survivors within the mountainous ruins. The mission proved futile. After sunrise on September 16, succumbing to exhaustion, he left the site. His departure coincided with the arrival of a second wave of credentialed emergency workers who would assume responsibility for Ground Zero’s search and recovery operations.
Images on View
Photographer Stephane Sednaoui captured more than 500 images using a small Ricoh camera over three nights between September 12 and 16 during breaks from the grueling work of digging through the wreckage as a volunteer.
