Description

Mark D Phillips image of “Satan in the Smoke” is an anachronism of both the 9/11 horror and the digital age. The image was attacked after publication and became a rally cry of the end of photography.

For 24 years I’ve been that guy who took that picture on 9/11.

I go to parties and that’s how people introduce me. It makes you question if that email you received that said “you were put on the planet to take this picture” was true.

My picture went viral when we didn’t know what that word meant. My camera, you see, captured something that, in my determination to perform my job, I had missed. It was a face in the smoke.

Printed on 11″ x 14″ aluminum from the original digital file.