September 11, 2001. I was in Watertown, South Dakota shooting portraits on the local high school for a story on American High Schools. Watching television while eating breakfast I saw the attack on the twin towers and pentagon. My first reaction was that I had to go to New York, but I soon realized it would take too long, all airtraffic was immediately banned in US airspace and driving from SD to the Big Apple would take days.
I decided to head to Watertown High and keep on with the story I was shooting there. The mood in the school that day was quiet but not so different from any other day. One difference was that every TV in school was on, showing images from ground zero.
One of the students I took a portrait of that day was Josh, a senior dressed in black with an appropriate t-shirt for that day.
Link to: American Highschool
