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>>ANCHOR: Sept. 11th is next Sunday. It will be the 10th anniversary. We've already told
you about the powerful exhibit now open at Rochester Museum and Science Center. Today
we want to let you know about an exhibit being pieced together at RIT. It's called "9/11:
The First 36 Hours."
What do you recall from that day? Do the towers stand tall in your memory? Does the smoke
permeate every recollection?
>>WILLIAM SNYDER: We've had a tendency to kind of forget about that day, other than
the towers coming down.
>>REPORTER: Photojournalism professor William Synder wants to change that. He wants you
to look back, look up, look down. He wants to introduce you to other images from that
afternoon on Sept. 11, 2001.
>>WILLIAM SNYDER: The major focus of these pictures is on people. What happened to them?
The injuries, the emotion, the loss, the anger.
>>REPORTER: Snyder is setting up an exhibit at RIT that will display 50 photographs.
>>WILLIAM SNYDER: The power of still images is to capture moments, allow the viewers to
spend some time with them and be able to study a moment frozen in time.
>>REPORTER: Choosing which photographers to feature, Snyder made it simple. They had to
have sat in an RIT classroom. That way these students will know that the photographers
who studied here before them stood in the face of disaster and did not flinch, but snapped
instead.
>>ELIZABETH STALLMEYER: How could a photographer fully, you know, capture all that emotion
in images and still be as powerful as they are today.
>>REPORTER: Powerful because they stir old memories while creating a fresh picture of
that day.
>>WILLIAM SNYDER: This picture right here? This picture right here, you know, this woman
is hugging this one. And this woman, he said, was doing nothing but crying and saying, 'We're
alive. We're alive. We're alive!'
>>ANCHOR: Powerful stuff. The exhibit will open on Friday and run until Oct. 17th. And
on Friday, one of the photographers, one that was almost killed capturing the images, will
be here to talk about his photographs. For more information, you can head to 13wham.com
and click on the green 'Find It' button.