In the days immediately following their collapse, the still-standing portions of the Twin Towers give the site, a cemetery for 3,000 people, the look of a ruined church

A City of Ashes

Over and over, we watched the towers burn and fall. Nine days later, photojournalist Eugene Richards began turning his camera on the long aftermath of Sept. 11 and the many ways in which New York reached for comfort and meaning.

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