911 - Ten years later (Swiss Stories 2012, by Marco Frauchiger) - Swiss Press Award
Der Bund
Marco Frauchiger
City of signs. The goal was clear when Bernese photographer Marco Frauchiger set out for New York: to search for traces, ten years later. Ground Zero was hidden behind an opaque construction fence. But the further he moved away from the center of events, and the less clear the traces became, the more interesting Frauchiger observed them. On the Brooklyn Bridge, for example, where the evening sun simultaneously marks and obscures the gap in the skyline. Or among the construction workers taking a break in front of a skyscraper facade: just like the exhausted helpers of that time. And so this city revealed itself to be full of signs. The emergency number that is more than an emergency number, the lonely flag, the cracked pavement: is there really still an innocent view of New York – one that isn't crowded with images from those September days? Frauchiger's photographic research: also a reflection on how this catastrophe has infected our perception.
