Aged 19, Lucas Foglia arrived in Manhattan and began documenting a city starting to heal. 20 years on, he's publishing the images for the first time.
arrived, he was suddenly still. With this long stretch of time to meditate, he found himself drawn to a project he shot at 19 when he first moved to Manhattan from his parents' farm in Long Island. 's healing in the summer of 2002 — its first summer since the collapse of the Twin Towers.
"9/11 had a tremendous effect on people in the north east, especially in New York where I grew up," says Lucas, whose family's farm was 30 miles from NYC."I went to the city right after, and the streets were empty; everyone felt shell shocked." But when he moved there the following summer, the energy had completely changed."People were out in the streets; the parades were packed.
Reflecting on the impact of 9/11, he continues,"It felt like a shadow that was everywhere in the city. I was photographing in Brooklyn one evening, and there was a line of dump trucks down one of the main roads. The people I was photographing said they came by daily with debris from the Twin Towers."
Lucas stopped shooting just before the first anniversary —"the project was about the first summer after, looking at how people on the street looked back at me" — and for the most part the images have spent years sitting in boxes, with a handful stuck to his studio wall and several discovered by chance in the homes of friends. Largely though, he has not engaged with the series for several years.
Highlighting just 70 of Lucas's images , the new book features a diverse mix of people from all over New York; businessmen taking a quick break, friends enjoying a parade, families running errands, each photographed in black-and-white and presented with dignity, warmth and respect."Everyone was outside and effectively in a communal space — that's what summer is in New York," he adds."People were outside their apartments and houses, in parks, the streets, at parades.
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