09/08/2026
Witness Marks 25: This year marks 25 years since 9/11, a quarter century.
One in ten Americans today have no memory of it at all. They know it the way they know any other date in a history book. (Pew Research)
That's part of why I made this: Witness Marks 25, twenty-five photographs, one for each year since, all of the same piece of steel. It's World Trade Center wreckage built into "Tempered by Memory," a sculpture by John Van Alstine and Noah Savett at High Rock Park in Saratoga Springs.
I photographed the sculpture in every season, in fog, in snow, in early morning light and late summer heat. The sequence starts close, on rust and welds and bent metal, then pulls back until the whole piece comes into view.
Twenty-five images. Twenty-five years. A way of looking at how memory holds up over that much time.
