I had long been convinced that many or most of my original negatives from my John Kennedy, Jr. and Carolyn Bessette (Kennedy) et al., collection (1994-1999) had vanished or been destroyed and that they were lost or missing forever. The recent pandemic shutdown, however, allowed me the time and compelled me to frenetically scour tens of thousands of negative sheets buried carelessly in boxes and drawers at my home and luckily was able to salvage a bunch of originals. Getty Images, who syndicate my Sygma/Corbis collection of the Kennedys, also discovered many in their archive and graciously provided me with beautiful new hires scans of a score of my missing frames, some iconic, of John and Carolyn, that documented their life
in New York during this period until the fatal plane crash in the Atlantic Ocean off Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, that took their lives and the life of Carolyn’s sister, Lauren Bessette, This portfolio of images is a selection of a Monograph in progress.