From ceremonies commemorating September 11th and attacks on U.S. Embassies around the world to the Pencil Nebula in space and playtime weightlifting in North Korea, TIME presents the best images of the week.
A cat with two faces, rail tracks buckled by the shifting earth after an earthquake in New Zealand, the police rescue of a girl held hostage by her father—these are just a few of the compelling and surprising images to have emerged beyond the main news cycle this year.
New York’s Milk Gallery will feature the photographer’s portrait series, first published in TIME, now through Oct. 7.
This week; A man visits the graveside of his son—killed by Gaddafi loyalists—in Tripoli, three thousand flags commemorate the 10 year anniversary of 9/11, a plane flies through the “Tribute in Lights” in lower Manhattan. gas pipeline explosion in Nairobi, gunmen open fire on a school bus in Pakistan, Israeli embassy attack in Cairo, Brazilian forest fires, Damien Hirst’s sculpture Legend, New York fashion week, Novak Djokovic wins the U.S. Open, and the painted “Tiger Men” of India’s “Pulikali” Tiger Dance festival.
TIME contract photographer Marco Grob shares an intimate look into the making of the portraits and oral histories that comprise TIME’s Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience.
Joel Meyerowitz sat down for an interview with TIME after his most recent shoot for our Commemorative 9/11 issue to reflect on a decade of documenting Ground Zero.
Renowned photo editors, photographers, educators, curators, and bloggers recall the images that moved them most from September 11, 2001
“There wasn’t even any smoke. Just eight or nine men in white protective suits moving around a crater, with a line of trees behind them, burnt black.” Pittsburgh-based photographer Scott Goldsmith, one of first journalists allowed to view the crash site of United Flight 93, documented the pain and gradual healing of Shanksville, Pa.
For the first time in ten years, James Nachtwey returns to the 27 rolls of film that he shot on September 11, 2001 for TIME. While revisiting the negatives, he discovered compelling scenes, previously unpublished. Nachtwey reflects, in an interview with David Levi Strauss, on the immensity of the devastation and the heroism that he witnessed that day.
Photographer Camilo José Vergara writes for LightBox about his photographs of the World Trade Center taken over the past 41 years. Within his images, the Towers’ absence speaks perhaps even more powerfully than their presence.
