Financial Districts
These images were taken during a two-year period between May 1999 and June 2001, focusing on white-collar workers in centers of Western financial power, including New York, London, Paris and San Francisco. This was a pre-9/11, Enron world in which “new economy” hype was in its ascendancy and globalization was the watchword of the financial sector. Two events weigh heavily on a reading of these images: first, the spectacular demise of the dot.com bubble, which reached its peak in March of 2000 then burst and continued plummeting until the fall of 2002; and second, yet to come when the images were made, the stunning World Trade Center attack of September 11, 2001.