September 12 in 35mm

Joe Miale
4 min readSep 10, 2018

In the days following the September 11th terror attacks, I walked the streets of Manhattan with my father’s Olympus OM-2 camera and three rolls of Kodak GC 400–8 film.

This is what I saw.

The view from our rooftop on the east side of Manhattan, a few miles north of Ground Zero. The left side of the negative is flashed, though it is fitting: the city torn in half.
Usually a traffic jam, the FDR Drive is closed to civilian traffic for 10 days.

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