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But Richard Drew’s quiet picture of one man falling from the towers conveys the tragedy of every life lost that day._ --- Jul 28, 2023 4:52 AM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Dolly Parton Reflects on Her Legacy in 2020 TIME Interview](/video/HBGENzJ2/) ### Dolly Parton Reflects on Her Legacy in 2020 TIME Interview [Dolly Parton: How She Makes a Livin' MONEY](/video/mPmObPqw/) ### Dolly Parton: How She Makes a Livin' MONEY [Survivors of Terrorist Attacks on How They Moved Forward](/video/Z0gQrqpv/) ### Survivors of Terrorist Attacks on How They Moved Forward --- ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] [ SOUND ] I took an express subway train from Times Square to Chamber Street, which is the stop just before the World Trade Center. The first thing I saw was the two World Trade Centers, both of them. Had smoke and fire coming through. [ SOUND ] I just started making my pictures. [ SOUND ] I was photographing the burning building when ATM's says my god just look at that. And we start to seeing people coming down at the building. 8- 0 floor, 8- 0 floor in building two, 80 people trapped. 8- 0 floor, 10- 4. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] I instinctively picked up my camera and started photographing them, following them as they came down. Until I photographed what has become known as the falling man. It's a very quiet photograph. It's not like a lot of other violent photographs from other disasters, there's no blood, there's no guts, there's nobody getting shot, but people react to it in a way that they feel that they can relate to this photograph, that they might have been in the same situation And they might have had to make whatever choice the man in the photograph made. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] You have to be very aware of your surroundings when you're in a situation like this. You have to be careful that you don't become a victim. Journalist don't run away from falling building, we don't run away from the fire, we run through it because it's our job to record history. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] I didn't know I had that photograph of that man in that position until I actually saw in my computer when I get back to the office. I called one of our photo editors and I showed them the picture. And I said this is it. This had gotta be the picture. This man was like an arrow, bisecting the two World Trade centers. [ SOUND ] I woke up the next morning and I opened up the paper and there was y photograph of falling man. [ MUSIC ] It was a very brave thing for them to use that picture, it was the only picture that was like that of anybody falling from the building, then only picture that showed any kind of human interaction like that. A paper in Allentown, Pennsylvania used the picture and they put on their whole back page of the newspaper and then the editor said that it was been important to photograph and He got a lot of mail, letters to the editor saying he shouldn't have run this, this is not something I want my children to see. Tom Junod, the author of the Esquire article, he is the one who came up with the name the Falling Man. That was the name of the article and it's sort of stuck. [ MUSIC ] I've never regretted taking that photograph at all. It's probably one of the only photographs that actually shows someone dying that day. [ MUSIC ] We have a terrorist attack on our soil and we still don't see pictures of our people dying and this is a photograph of someone Dying. [ MUSIC ] ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"100 Photographs: The Falling Man","description":"Most images of 9/11 depict destruction on a massive scale. 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