9/11 – Five Years Later

Five years later, a search of dotPhoto’s public galleries yields thousands of images that tell the story of the World Trade Center from construction to the views from its famous observation decks and to the now familiar, horrible aftermath.  Some images, like the plaza spontaneously decorated in chalk messages of love and the “Tribute Lights” that reached to heaven, are powerful memorials.

9/11/01 through the lens of photojournalist living in Manhattan

“WTC Tragedy”

Photojournalist revisits the WTC site one year later
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Towers being built, August 1971, as seen from the Statue of Liberty.

WTC Tribute Lights
The twin beams of light illuminated the evening sky for a month from 3/11/02 to 4/13/02

WTC and lower Manhattan

“Never Forget: — the aftermath of 9/11/06

Views from the top of the World Trade Center

1055 images from the North Shore News including photos of the observation deck

Shanksville Memorial Site for Flight 93

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Glenn Paul is President and Co-Founder of dotPhoto, which began life in 2000 as a photo printing service and now also distributes user-generated media in Flash, video and on cell phones. View all posts by dotphoto