Konstantin Petrov was an Estonian immigrant who worked as a night-shift electrician at the World Trade Center's "Windows on the World" restaurant. He used his unique access during quiet summer nights in 2001 to photograph the Twin Towers' interiors, capturing empty offices, stairwells, and dawn views. The photographs provide intimate visual evidence of the buildings' atmosphere shortly before their destruction on September 11. Petrov left the site minutes before the first plane struck and survived the attacks, but he died in a motorcycle accident a year later. His images were rediscovered on the Estonian site Fotki in 2014 and have since served as a poignant archive of a lost world.
Konstantin Petrov, an Estonian immigrant and night-shift electrician at the World Trade Center's "Windows on the World" restaurant, used his unique access to document the Twin Towers' interiors during the quiet summer nights of 2001. His haunting photographs-featuring empty offices, stairwells, and breathtaking dawn views-offer a rare and intimate glimpse into the buildings before their destruction. Petrov narrowly escaped the 9/11 attacks, leaving the site just minutes before the first plane struck, only to tragically die in a motorcycle accident a year later.
His haunting photographs-featuring empty offices, stairwells, and breathtaking dawn views-offer a rare and intimate glimpse into the buildings before their destruction. Petrov narrowly escaped the 9/11 attacks, leaving the site just minutes before the first plane struck, only to tragically die in a motorcycle accident a year later. His images, later discovered on the Estonian site Fotki by a filmmaker in 2014, have since become a poignant visual archive of a lost world.
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