It’s been a week since the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. Like you, at creativepro.com we found it difficult to focus on anything else as the tragedy unfolded. The images being beamed to us on television and through the Internet were horrible and mesmerizing. While our prayers go out to anyone and everyone who’s been affected by these terrible events, our thoughts also turn to those in our extended family of creative professionals.
In addition to being an international financial center, New York is the heart of the creative world and the home of key media, advertising, and design companies. After ascertaining that individual contributors to creativepro.com were safe, we pondered a larger issue: What was it like, we wondered, for creative people to experience the destruction of their city? Designers are visually oriented souls who have heightened awareness of and a deep connection to their environment. It’s one thing to play around in Photoshop — moving buildings, changing landscapes — but destroying the World Trade Center and the lives contained therein? What was it like to see this through their eyes?
Katrin Eismann and John McIntosh are not only experts in digital imaging, they are husband and wife. Their Weehawken, New Jersey apartment looks out across the Hudson and takes in panoramic views of lower Manhattan, including the World Trade Center. As the world as we know it changed, they did what comes automatically to visual people: They watched, and then they grabbed their digital cameras. This is what they saw and how they felt.
By John McIntosh
by Katrin Eismann
This article was last modified on September 18, 2001
This article was first published on September 18, 2001
Commenting is easier and faster when you're logged in!
