25 Years Later – Webster University Photo Exhibit and Lectures Explore the Aftermath of 9/11

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Details: 9/11: A 25th Anniversary Photography Exhibition of the Terrorist Attacks in New York City July 1–December 15, 2026 Lecture to be held at 1 p.m. on Friday, September 11. Sverdrup Hall, Room 123, Webster University Campus, 8300 Big Bend Blvd, 63119. A reception immediately follows the lecture in Emerson Library Exhibition Space. The event is free and open to the public. Webster University presents “9/11: A 25th Anniversary Photography Exhibition of the Terrorist Attacks in New York City,” an exhibition of photographs by Jane Martin and of observations from anthropologist and former School of Communications Dean Eric Rothenbuhler, PhD. Both lived directly across the Hudson River from the Twin Towers and documented the impact on the region in the following months. Presented across the first floor of the Sverdrup Building and the Emerson Library Exhibition Space (Conference Room 120), the exhibition will be held now through Dec. 15, 2026. A public lecture featuring Rothenbuhler will be hosted on the anniversary of the attacks - 1 p.m. on Friday, September 11, in Sverdrup Hall, Room 123, followed by a reception in the Emerson Library Exhibition Space, directly next door to the Gallery. In August 2001, Martin and Rothenbuhler relocated to Jersey City, New Jersey, directly across the Hudson River from the World Trade Center. Just weeks later, they witnessed the attacks firsthand. While Rothenbuhler observed the unfolding events as an anthropologist and kept an extensive journal documenting the cultural response, Martin spent the day photographing the collapse of the Twin Towers, the evacuation of lower Manhattan, and the extraordinary acts of compassion, mourning, and resilience that followed. The resulting exhibition offers a rare eyewitness perspective—not focused solely on destruction, but on the profound human response that emerged in its aftermath. Martin’s photographs document ferry evacuations across the Hudson River, crowds gathering at the…