


#9 11 REMEMBRANCE PHOTOS ARCHIVE#
On that day, Turnley rushed to the site just two blocks away from his home, where he photographed the collapse of both towers before heading into the rubble with the first firefighters and police officers that responded to the scene.Īccording to Turnley, many of the photos he is releasing as part of his new video - set to Bruce Springsteen’s “Lift Me Up” - have remained in his personal archive until this week. I grabbed my cameras - and 20 rolls of film - and by the time I returned to head down to the World Trade Center, another plane had just hit the second tower. “After getting dressed for an appointment, I walked out the door to see the first twin tower in flames. I moved to the city in the late ’90s after 20 years of covering war all over the world,” Turnley wrote in a recent Instagram post. “It was a gorgeous, blue-sky morning, and I was in the shower on West 10th Street in New York’s West Village when I heard what sounded like a train wreck. For the past 40 years, he has covered most of the world’s major events, uprisings and wars - including the Persian Gulf War, the struggle to end apartheid, revolutions in Eastern Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, to name a few. Stamps School of Art & Design and LSA’s Residential College. Turnley is an associate professor in the Penny W. These photographs of the aftermath of 9/11 were taken by U-M professor David Turnley and have not been released publicly until now.
