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Today, Jon Stewart testified about the important of extending the 9/11 fund past 2020, to handle the health and welfare of first responders who went to Ground Zero and worked there, suffering greatly in the years hence. I'd like to add something to that discussion, something new.
In the past week, I was handed a cache of 2,400 photos taken at Ground Zero from the end of September to beginning of October, 2001. They were taken by a worker who was there with a Canon Powershot G1, and who snapped away while toiling through the wreckage. 
There are photos from inside buildings, outside areas that are being cleared, as well as of from a variety of viewpoints. It's rather extensive. This is straight from CDRs dumped from the Powershot G1 camera.
The CDRs were absolutely falling apart. Some of the photos are already lost because the CDRs just tend to rot over time, and here, about 18 years later, that was asking a lot. Back up your old CDRs please.
So, it would probably be useful to interview the worker who took all these photos, who walked around the grounds, who captured these unique images of Ground Zero from all over the space, showing the effort being done to clear the wreckage.
Except we can't.
He's dead.
Except we can't.
He's dead.
The family who has acquired this collection out of estate sale is having me provide these to you because they're history. Reprint and other rights can be discussed with an address I set up, gzphotos@textfiles.com. These unique photos are now copied in many places, and will live.
But we lost this photographer and many people who were there are sick, dying, and miserable from work they did at Ground Zero during those early months. They were told the area was all-clear and safe. It is quite obvious it was not. Jon Stewart's plea for funding is in the right.
Questions can be directed at myself, or gzphotos@textfiles.com. If you want to browse all 2,389 photos, here is the @Flickr album I've set up: flickr.com/photos/textfil…
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