Taken on September 11, 2001, an American flag set among the wreckage at the World Trade Center in New York City in the hours after the attacks. Twisted metal, torn surfaces, and smoke frame a scene of sudden loss and confusion as the city and the country tried to understand what had just happened. The flag was not a planned display, but something placed by hand in the middle of destruction, reflecting how people reached for familiar symbols in an unfamiliar moment.
