Burning Memories at ICP

Currently at the International Center of Photography is an exhibit of newspapers-- the cover pages around the world headlining September 11, 2001. "Krieg gegen USA," "40,000 morti," "Un autre Pearl Harbor," were amongst bolded phrases pasted atop full page prints of a blazing World Trade Center or lamenting bystander. Revisiting the imagery of that fateful day reminded me how I've tried not to be reminded. For New Yorkers to heal, perhaps the only thing to do was look forward. One of the headlines from a French newspaper referred to New York as "le coeur du monde." Seven years on, it is evident the world has been reshaped. The post 9/11 northern world is no longer naïve to the disgruntlements and trajectories of our friends and foes afar.