Chuck Fishman Photography

Come Healing

Like millions of people, my wife and I watched in shock and amazement, on live TV, the catastrophe taking place on September 11, 2001. I chose to stay home and wait for our son to return from school, not knowing when that might be. When he returned we asked him what he knew before turning the TV back on. We then drove up a nearby mountain with a long distance view of Manhattan and joined others who had gathered to see the smoke from the destroyed Twin Towers drift over the city skyline. That’s when I began to photograph, telling my son that he would always have pictures of himself the day the world changed. The pictures in this portfolio are all related to that day as witnessed in memorials and commemorations over the next several years. 

Chuck Fishman

Susan and Adam Fishman (binoculars) watching the burning smoke from the collapsed World Trade Centers, 37 miles away, from a mountain top with other residents of Rockland County, NY, Sept. 11, 2001 Local residents watching the burning smoke from the collapsed Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, 37 miles away, from a mountain in Rockland County, NY, Sept. 11, 2001 "Missing" posts and memorials for those killed, 5 days after the attack and collapse of the World Trade Centers, in Union Square, NY, NY, Sept. 16, 2001 Memorial wall in Washington Square, 5 days after the attack and collapse of the Twin Towers, NY, NY Sept. 16, 2001 Funeral of firefighter Thomas Foley from West Nyack, NY, killed on 9/11 at the WTC, at St. Anthony's Church, Nanuet, NY Sept. 29, 2001 Funeral of firefighter Thomas Foley, killed on 9/11 at the WTC, at St. Anthony's Church, Nanuet, NY Sept. 29, 2001 The morning of the first ceremony at WTC / Ground Zero marking the official completion of separation of human remains from 1.8 million tons of debris and removal of both, NY, NY, May 30, 2002 Morning of the first ceremony at WTC / Ground Zero marking the official completion of separation of human remains from 1.8 million tons of debris and removal of both, NY, NY, May 30, 2002 Morning of the first ceremony at WTC / Ground Zero marking the official completion of separation of human remains from 1.8 million tons of debris and removal of both, NY, NY, May 30, 2002 Morning of the first ceremony at WTC / Ground Zero marking the official completion of separation of human remains from 1.8 million tons of debris and removal of both, NY, NY, May 30, 2002 A family listening to a colleague of their father describing how and where their father died on 911 on the morning of the first ceremony at WTC / Ground Zero marking the official completion of separation of human remains from 1.8 million tons of debris and removal of both, NY, NY, May 30, 2002 Morning of the first ceremony at WTC / Ground Zero marking the official completion of separation of human remains from 1.8 million tons of debris and removal of both, NY, NY, May 30, 2002 Morning of the first ceremony at WTC / Ground Zero marking the official completion of separation of human remains from 1.8 million tons of debris and removal of both, NY, NY, May 30, 2002 Morning of the first ceremony at WTC / Ground Zero marking the official completion of separation of human remains from 1.8 million tons of debris and removal of both, NY, NY, May 30, 2002 New York firemen at ground zero on the morning of the first ceremony at WTC / Ground Zero marking the official completion of separation of human remains from 1.8 million tons of debris and removal of both, NY, NY, May 30, 2002 Family members of those killed holding pictures of their loved ones on the morning of the first ceremony at WTC / Ground Zero marking the official completion of separation of human remains from 1.8 million tons of debris and removal of both, NY, NY, May 30, 2002 First anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002 First anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002 First anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002 Notes left by loved ones on barriers surrounding ground zero at the first anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002 First anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002 First anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002 First anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002 First anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002 First anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002 First anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002 First anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002 First anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002 First anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002 First anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002 First anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002 First anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002 First anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002 Police search and rescue dog Bretagne at the first anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002. Bretagne lived until the age of 16 and was the last known living service dog to have been employed by FEMA at ground zero. Man looking at faces of those killed on 911 in that days' New York Times at the first anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002 First anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002 During minute of silence at the first anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002 British police attending the first anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002 International police officers at the first anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002 First anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002 Sherriffs from Oregon looking at photos from a year earlier at the first anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002 Members of the Police Organization Providing Peer Assistance (POPPA) at the first anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002 First anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2002 Second anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2003 Second anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2003 Second anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2003 Stan Hirschkorn, asst. chief of the Association Auxiliary Volunteer Fire Dept, of Brooklyn, NY at the s econd anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2003 Second anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2003 Second anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2003 Second anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2003 Bereaved family at the second anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2003 Second anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2003 Second anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2003 Second anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2003 New York police officers at the second anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2003 Second anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2003 Second anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2003 Conspiracy theorists at the fifth anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2006 Fifth anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2006 Fifth anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2006 Fifth anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2006 World Trade Center neighborhood during the sixth anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2007 Sixth anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2007 World Trade Center neighborhood during the sixth anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, NY, NY, Sept. 11, 2007 Live TV coverage of the seventh anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center, Rockland County, NY, Sept. 11, 2008 Aerial view of New York harbor and lower Manhattan skyline with boat in foreground, New York, New York, August 1978
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