You won't see images of crashing planes and burning buildings at the Miami Art Museum's September 11th commemoration exhibit.
Just 24 images snapped by Joel Meyerowitz, the only photographer allowed access to Ground Zero for nine months following the 2001 attacks.
The focus of the exhibit is to give you a window into the aftermath, senior curator Peter Boswell said.
"The pictures show the full span of the cleanup after 9/11," said Boswell. "I think you get a sense of what it must have been like to work on that site."
Firefighters comb through mangled metal day and night in the images.
City of Miami firefighter David Walters remembers what it was like.
"When we got there, there was nothing there," he said, remembering the column of smoke where the twin towers once stood. "It changed me."
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Walters grew up in New Jersey, and had visited the World Trade Center often. When he watched the second plane crash into the second tower from Miami, he knew he had to make a trip to help. Walters couldn't take a plane, so he and a crew of firefighters drove north.
They got to work on September 14th and spent 18 days digging. It was already too late to pull anyone out alive.
"I can't believe it's been ten years, it's our Pearl Harbor," said Walters. "We'll never forget it."
The museum exhibit runs through November 6th. For more details, go to www.miamiartmuseum.org/.
