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Jonathan Corum

@13pt.com

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Information designer at 13pt.com, former Science graphics @nytimes.com

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Jonathan Corum @13pt.com · 02/09/2026

I’ve never discussed my leukemia (CML) diagnosis before, which happened nine years after 9/11. Was it related to the acrid air and persistent dust that filled my apartment on Canal Street? Or just a genetic accident as I aged 25 years? There’s no way to know.

The Charging Bull sculpture and me, aging 25 years

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Jonathan Corum @13pt.com · 02/09/2026

It’s also a time capsule of NYC street life before smartphones and social media, when memes were posted on walls and protests were organized through flyers and stickers.

A scratched sticker promoting a peace march

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Jonathan Corum @13pt.com · 02/09/2026

The photo archive is split into nine sections: the day itself, cleanup, rebuilding, commerce, patriotism, elections, protests, security and remembrance.

A screenshot of one of the website sections

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Jonathan Corum @13pt.com · 02/09/2026

In late July I started sifting through the more than 100,000 snapshots I’ve taken since 2001. More than 30,000 of them were related to 9/11 or to the changes it brought to NYC. I edited those down to 3,300 photos, then cut again to 1,800.

A screenshot of my unedited photos in Adobe Lightroom

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Jonathan Corum @13pt.com · 02/09/2026

I visited the same locations again and again to take before/after/now comparisons: memorials aging and disappearing, trees growing and dying, street art painted over and emerging again. Sometimes I remembered exactly where I stood in 2001, sometimes I had to check reference photos.

Consulting a reference photo on my phone for a 13-year-old memorial in Brooklyn Heights

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Jonathan Corum @13pt.com · 02/09/2026

I posted some of these photos in 2001, shrunk down for low-res screens and dial-up modems. A quarter century later, they can now appear at full size. Over 1,000 of them have never been shown before.

A size comparison of one of my 2001 websites vs the 2026 project

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Jonathan Corum @13pt.com · 02/09/2026

Yesterday I published a memorial archive of 1,800 photographs of NYC since 9/11: 25years.org

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Jonathan Corum @13pt.com · 13/12/2025

So about that font news ... gift article: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

An illustration showing a hypothetical State Department letterhead in two different fonts.

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Jonathan Corum @13pt.com · 10/12/2025

All 187,460 Miles of Road That Led to Rome, Mapped — gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/s...

a map of Roman roads showing a pilgrim’s route from Bordeaux to Jerusalem and back

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Jonathan Corum @13pt.com · 20/11/2025

Monarch butterfly tracks in today’s NYT. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

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Jonathan Corum @13pt.com · 16/05/2025

20 years ago today I started work at the NY Times. I’d studied design and typography, but everything else was a crash course: journalism, cartography, CMYK printing, editing, etc.

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Jonathan Corum @13pt.com · 11/12/2024

We landed near the edge of Lake Vanda in 2016 — it's super saline liquid under the thick ice, and there are photos of a “Lake Vanda Swim Club” from the 1980s

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