"The Drowning" by Cornell Watson

B&H Photography Podcast · May 5, 2022 · 55m

In September 2017, we dedicated an episode to a conversation about one photograph—an image made by photographer Richard Drew, on September 11, 2001, in New York, which has come to be called "The Falling Man." It was an insightful recollection and analysis of an incredibly painful image, and on today's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast, we will again discuss one photograph to try to understand it better.

The photograph is titled, "The Drowning," and it was taken in August of 2020 during another national crisis, albeit a very different one. Photographer Cornell Watson created the series…