--- description: Joel Meyerowitz sat down for an interview with TIME after his most recent shoot for our Commemorative 9/11 issue to reflect on a decade of documenting Ground Zero. title: Joel Meyerowitz: Ground Zero, Then and Now image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb6e352dc810b2f54/6987990c0b72e325b06def7d/l1006296a.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [LightBox](/tag/time-section-lightbox/) ## LightBox Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Joel Meyerowitz: Ground Zero, Then and Now by [Neil Harris](/author/neil-harris/) ## Neil Harris Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 10, 2011 4:29 PM CUT  Joel Meyerowitz for TIME by [Neil Harris](/author/neil-harris/) ## Neil Harris Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 10, 2011 4:29 PM CUT [Joel Meyerowitz](http://www.joelmeyerowitz.com/ "undefined") was the only photographer with regular access to Ground Zero in the weeks and months following 9/11\. As part of our Commemorative 9/11 issue, _TIME_ commissioned Meyerowitz to venture back to Ground Zero and document the rapid changes at the site since late 2010\. Meyerowitz was able to reflect on and even re-photograph many of the locations in his seminal work,[_Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive_](http://www.phaidon.com/aftermath/ "undefined"). To see TIME’s 9/11 Commemorative issue visit [**_Beyond 9/11:Portraits of Resilience_**](http://www.time.com/time/beyond911/ "undefined")[.](http://www.time.com/time/beyond911/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3780724/joel-meyerowitz-ground-zero-then-and-now/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3780724/joel-meyerowitz-ground-zero-then-and-now/"},"headline":"Joel Meyerowitz: Ground Zero, Then and Now","datePublished":"2011-09-10T16:29:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:59:09.511Z","description":"Joel Meyerowitz sat down for an interview with TIME after his most recent shoot for our Commemorative 9/11 issue to reflect on a decade of documenting Ground Zero.","url":"https://time.com/3780724/joel-meyerowitz-ground-zero-then-and-now/","keywords":["LightBox","Terrorism","9/11","september 11","Terror","photo essay"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb6e352dc810b2f54/6987990c0b72e325b06def7d/l1006296a.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Neil Harris","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/neil-harris/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb6e352dc810b2f54/6987990c0b72e325b06def7d/l1006296a.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"L1006296a","caption":"","creditText":"Joel Meyerowitz for TIME","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/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-lightbox/","name":"LightBox"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3780724/joel-meyerowitz-ground-zero-then-and-now/","name":"Joel Meyerowitz: Ground Zero, Then and Now"}}]}] ```