--- description: New York street photographer, Keith Goldstein, describes his project "Looking Up." A photo series which documents the World Trade tourists. title: Photographing World Trade Tourists image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6db18a22810beb03/6986a2f255a8591e91a82832/7210021.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [9/11](/tag/911/) ## 9/11 Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Looking Up: A Photographer Captures World Trade Center Tourists by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 11, 2014 11:11 PM CUT  Looking Up Looking UpKeith Goldstein by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 11, 2014 11:11 PM CUT Photographer Keith Goldstein never found lower Manhattan that interesting to look at until he noticed where New Yorkers and tourists themselves were looking — up, where the new World Trade Center building towers over the city and the memory of 9/11 attacks. “I think with this project what I wanted to do was capture peoples emotions of grief, despair, happiness, awe, longing, hoping — as many diverse emotions as there are people,” says Goldstein, who prefers to photograph the looks on bystanders’ faces without detection. To do this, he uses a small camera, often snapping his photos without even glancing through the viewfinder at his subjects. “One would almost call it a drive-by,” he says, “except I walk by.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3329648/photography-world-trade-center-tourists-keith-goldstein/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3329648/photography-world-trade-center-tourists-keith-goldstein/"},"headline":"Looking Up: A Photographer Captures World Trade Center Tourists","datePublished":"2014-09-11T23:11:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:08:44.296Z","description":"\"What I wanted to do was capture peoples emotions of grief, despair, happiness, awe, longing, hoping — as many diverse emotions as there are people\"","url":"https://time.com/3329648/photography-world-trade-center-tourists-keith-goldstein/","keywords":["9/11","TIME","New York City","NYC","photography","Tourists","World trade center","september 11","street photography"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6db18a22810beb03/6986a2f255a8591e91a82832/7210021.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6db18a22810beb03/6986a2f255a8591e91a82832/7210021.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Looking Up","caption":"Looking Up","creditText":"Keith Goldstein","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/911/","name":"9/11"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3329648/photography-world-trade-center-tourists-keith-goldstein/","name":"Looking Up: A Photographer Captures World Trade Center Tourists"}}]}] ```