I wanted document the site of the World Trade Center in New York City, 2007.  As I was shooting I realized that the work provides a study in contrasts.  Some photographs capture the hope and optimism necessary to help turn history's page. Others convey the fear and mistrust that have become part of America's post 9/11 landscape.  A third set of images show the endless flow of people who come from all around the world - simply to be close - and who are awestruck by what they find.

I used black & white infrared film to create an ethereal quality that would enhance the feeling of the souls that were lost.  I found that the environment dominates the people in these photographs.  I chose to make people appear as stick figures or shadows, small in scope and scale.  They symbolize how fragile life is and was.