WORLD: Mr. Petersen, you are a fashion photographer and at home in the New York fashion scene. Did you have a different look at what happened in Manhattan on September 11, 2001?
Tim Petersen: I’m not a news photographer documenting things. I am an esthete and I photograph beautiful things: beauty, fashion and art. At first, nobody knew exactly what happened, including me. You can see that in the composition of my first photo. The World Trade Center is on the far right, because for me at that moment the main motif was the entire New York skyline. It sounds grotesque, but my first association with the scenery and the smoking towers was a toy train with a Jim Knopf locomotive.