THE WORLD TRADE CENTER

In 1969 I took some photos of a house for an architect friend and realized - in looking back at all the photographs I had made up to that point, since I was 12 years old - that it was shot through with architecture. I wondered if this might be my calling.

And what better way to learn to do something than to simply begin? I began to photograph the not yet completed World Trade Center near where I lived. Although considered revolutionary in their construction and height, I felt challenged to make these stark, modern buildings look appealing.

Then in 1972, I.M. Pei’s partner, architect James Freed, looked at my photo of the World Trade Center with the New Jersey Pier and said, “If you can do this for me, you have a job.” I did almost all of that firm’s photography for the next 20 years.

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