Last Frames: The Story of Bill Biggart

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Just before 9am on the morning of September 11 2001 in New York City, photojournalist Bill Biggart was out with his wife Wendy walking their dogs near their home on Union Square. At that moment the famously blue sky was punctured by a cloud of black smoke the size of a fist. A passing taxi driver tells them a plane has hit one of the World Trade Centre towers. Bill goes home, grabs his cameras and heads downtown. Wendy would never see him again. Over the next 90 minutes, he walks two miles, covering 20 blocks, to the Twin Towers – taking photos all the way. His last photograph is taken at the foot of the North Tower looking up, seconds before it collapses and kills him. Incredibly, many photographs Bill took on that day survive. Photographer Cambridge Jones looks at the unique perspective Bill’s lens brings to 9/11. What did he see? What does it reveal about us? And in a world of moving images, what power does the camera have when humanity is on the frontline? Photo: Chip East Presented by Cambridge Jones Produced by Eve Streeter Executive producer: William Miller A Raconteur Studios production for BBC Radio 4