Just dropped off @redsage.bsky.social at UCSF Mission Bay for a laparoscopic (we hope) hysterectomy and oophorectomy following up on the emergency salpingo-oophorectomy and salpingectomy two ago (after which patholgy found remains of small granulosa cell tumor in the detritus of their left ovary.
![Richard Drew/AP
2001 09 11 9:41 EST
An edit of a photo by Richard Drew/AP taken on
2001 09 11 9:41 EST.
Richard Drew has never [not talked the photo]. Although he has preserved the jacket patterned with [Senator Robert Kennedy’s] blood, he has never not taken a picture, never averted his eye. He works for the Associated Press. He is a journalist. It is not up to him to reject the images that fill his frame, because one never knows when history is made until one makes it. It is not even up to him to distinguish if a body is alive or dead, because the camera makes no such distinctions, and he is in the business of shooting bodies, as all photographers are, unless they are Ansel Adams. Indeed, he was shooting bodies on the morning of September 11, 2001. On assignment for the AP, he was shooting a maternity fashion show in Bryant Park, notable, he says, "because it featured actual pregnant models." He was fifty-four years old. He wore glasses. He was sparse in the scalp, gray in the beard, hard in the head. In a lifetime of taking pictures, he has found a way to be both mild-mannered and brusque, patient and very, very quick. He was doing what he always does at fashion shows—"staking out real estate"—when a CNN cameraman with an earpiece said that a plane had crashed into the North Tower, and Drew's editor rang his cell phone. He packed his equipment into a bag and gambled on taking the subway downtown. Although it was still running, he was the only one on it. He got out at the Chambers Street station and saw that both towers had been turned into smokestacks. Staking out his real estate, he walked west, to where ambulances were gathering, because rescue workers "usually won't throw you out." Then he heard people gasping. People on the ground were gasping because people in the building were jumping. He started shooting pictures through a 200mm lens….’
~Tom Junod for 𝑬𝒔𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒓𝒆
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