I arrived as the second tower was falling. He said, ‘You’re crazy, you’re going to die,’ and I said, ‘O.K.,’ and I bypassed him. I got to the other side as the second plane was hitting the second tower, and I continued toward the scene. I parked the car and walked across against the traffic of people fleeing lower Manhattan.
“I drove to the Brooklyn Bridge-there was no way to get across by car. He had a contract with The New Yorker, and the magazine’s editor, David Remnick, phoned as Peress was getting ready to head toward the site. “I looked at it, and it was evident that it was not only a major incident but that it was not an accident it was an attack,” Peress recalled. The photographer Gilles Peress, who has chronicled war and its aftershocks all over the world, was at home in Brooklyn on the morning of September 11, 2001, when he got a call from his studio manager, telling him to turn on the TV: a plane had just hit one of the World Trade Center towers.
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