It was the photo that caused an uproar. As the Twin Towers burned in the distance, clouds of grey smoke filling an otherwise perfect, sunny New York skyline, 5 friends lounge casually on the edge of a park in Brooklyn. Famed Magnum photographer Thomas Hoepker was there to capture a moment that would divide so many.
None of them seem to be aware of the horrific events unfolding behind them. Of course, that must not have been the case, but it’s the implication of this defiance and relaxed detachment towards the violence and death just across the water from these everyday New Yorkers, that caused so much shock and offence.