Photographer Ron Agam has spent his entire life traveling the world. At age six, the son of world-renowned artist Yaacov Agam added a camera to his travel gear as he began shooting that which inspired him most – his father’s art. From that moment Agam gave himself a personal challenge – to always be there.
Left: Photographer Ron Agam on September 11, 2001. Photo courtesy of Park West Gallery®.
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NEW YORK, NY – On the morning of September 11, 2001, when photographer Ron Agam heard about the terror attack on the Twin Towers, he left his apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and headed for his office in Soho. He took his cameras, film and other equipment and, together with his assistant, made his way on his bicycle to the disaster area.
“It was very bizarre,” recalls Agam, sitting on an armchair in his giant studio in Long Island City, an industrial area that in recent years has become very popular with artists. “Everyone was fleeing northward or trying to leave Manhattan and I was going in the opposite direction, toward the towers.”
During the time he spent at what was later to become known as Ground Zero, Agam took some 1,200 pictures.
“Every photographer has his own perspective. I felt I was a witness to one of the most important events in history, from the point of view of the impact of the pictures. Perhaps this sounds like a cliche, but I saw bravery with my own eyes.”
Recently Agam donated his collection of photos from that day to a memorial museum that will be set up at Ground Zero. [Source: Haaretz.com]
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