Joel Meyerowitz is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 150 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world.

A pioneer of color photography, he is widely recognized today for capturing the destruction and recovery at the World Trade Center (Ground Zero) after 9/11. Within days after the attacks, Mr. Meyerowitz began a photo archive of Ground Zero and the immediate neighborhood. He was the only photographer granted full access to Ground Zero.

The World Trade Center Archive now numbers more than 8,000 images and will be available for research, exhibition, and publication at museums in New York and Washington, DC.

At the State Department's request, Mr. Meyerowitz and the Museum of the City of New York created After September 11: Images from Ground Zero, a special exhibition of images from the archive to send around the world. The images are traveling to more than 200 cities in 60 countries over the next few years. By the end of 2003, over 1.5 million people had viewed the exhibition. In September 2002, he exhibited 73 life-sized images, some as large as 22 feet, in lower Manhattan.

Joel Meyerowitz was born in New York in 1938 and began photographing in 1962. His first book, Cape Light, is considered a classic work of color photography and has sold more than 100,000 copies. His recent work, Tuscany, reflects his experiences in Italy, where he teaches photography workshops for local youth. Author of 13 other books, including Bystander: The History of Street Photography, Mr. Meyerowitz is a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow and a recipient of prestigious awards from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

View an archive of his works here.