Matt Weber (Street photography), 9/11 Related, The Urban Prisoner

September 11th 2001 10:28 AM

I sincerely apologize if this picture causes any pain to anyone, but I have decided to post the photos I took that morning and I realize that they can be very depressing. There is a need for discussion about what lead to the massacre and everything which happened as a result of the attacks that day. I am probably not capable of neutral and sensible debate, so please don’t expect me to see the Saudi point of view. I realize that we had military bases in Saudi Arabia and that there is a sacred black cube there which may contain Allah himself, but I never want 3,000 people to be incinerated, no matter who they are…

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Matt Weber (Street photography), 9/11 Related, Old New York

“Collateral Damage” September 11th 2001

A friend of mine mentioned that there was this action movie due to hit the theaters soon after 9/11 and wondered if a lot of people went out to see it. I don’t think this picture is very special to look at, but the thought process behind it is far from routine. I had just watched the tallest building in New York collapse twenty minutes earlier, and the Empire State Building had always been my favorite. In the crazy unthinkable events of that morning, I thought that another jumbo jet would be zeroing in on the ESB at any minute. Fortunately, that never transpired, but you can see how a completely frazzled mind would think that I better take one last shot of that amazing edifice…

One more thing, the movie poster reads “Veteran firefighter’s wife and child killed in bomb blast!”

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Matt Weber (Street photography), Color, Kiss Kiss

Columbus Circle 2009

Photographs lie all the time. I could easily title this picture “Love is tough” or something to that effect, but the truth is of course totally unknown. Maybe he just told her that he would not be joining her for dinner at her mother’s house on Saturday, and for one moment there was a tiny bit of tension…They might end up living happily for 50 years and have three adorable kids…

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Matt Weber (Street photography), PROTESTS, signs

“Semper Fi” 1988

Somewhere in Brooklyn I found this dilapidated billboard and I guess you could say that this was taken in “Peacetime”…The cold war was on the verge of ending and it had been quite some time since the troops left Vietnam…Just three years later George Bush the first would start the last conventional war in this country’s history. Unfortunately the end of war as it had been known for ages, would not be the end of war…

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