Richard Drew (photographer)
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Richard Drew is an Associated Press
photo-journalist, perhaps most notable for his photo The Falling Man
which depicts a man falling from the World Trade Center
towers following the September 11, 2001 attacks
. A British documentary The Falling Man about the photo premiered on the Discovery Times channel on September 10, 2007.
Drew was one of four press photographers present at the assassination
of Robert F. Kennedy
. Drew has been an Associated Press photographer for 40 years, and lives with his wife and two daughters in New York City.
Associated Press
The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
photo-journalist, perhaps most notable for his photo The Falling Man
The Falling Man
The Falling Man is a photograph taken by Associated Press photographer Richard Drew, of a man falling from the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 9:41:15 a.m. during the September 11 attacks in New York City...
which depicts a man falling from the World Trade Center
World Trade Center
The original World Trade Center was a complex with seven buildings featuring landmark twin towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. The complex opened on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed in 2001 during the September 11 attacks. The site is currently being rebuilt with five new...
towers following the September 11, 2001 attacks
September 11, 2001 attacks
The September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th or 9/119/11 is pronounced "nine eleven". The slash is not part of the pronunciation...
. A British documentary The Falling Man about the photo premiered on the Discovery Times channel on September 10, 2007.
Drew was one of four press photographers present at the assassination
Robert F. Kennedy assassination
The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, a United States Senator and brother of assassinated President John F. Kennedy, took place shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, in Los Angeles, California...
of Robert F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy , also referred to by his initials RFK, was an American politician, a Democratic senator from New York, and a noted civil rights activist. An icon of modern American liberalism and member of the Kennedy family, he was a younger brother of President John F...
. Drew has been an Associated Press photographer for 40 years, and lives with his wife and two daughters in New York City.
External links
- CNN Interview with Richard Drew
- Junod, Tom "The Falling Man", Esquire (September 2003).
- 9/11: The Falling Man (March 16, 2006). Channel 4.
- Howe, Peter (2001). "Richard Drew". The Digital Journalist. http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0110/drew.htm