Wonderful news: This week,  Life Magazine is celebrating the work of my friend, the famed photographer George Forss you can see some of his iconic and legendary photographs on George’s website here. Life focused on George’s work in the Access project, photographs of New York before 911. His stunning photography captured the beauty of New York and also what was lost to all of us after the tragedy of 911. It was the end of an era.

Life was also drawn to George’s work by his Kickstarter Project  The Way We Were, through which George is seeking funding to publish a collection of his photographs of New York before 911. You can help support George in this very worthwhile project here. I am so proud of George, so grateful to have him as a friend. He is in the light again, his great work being re-discovered, those photographs are even more valuable and meaningful now than when he took them. If you can, please support his work and his book. George’s life is evidence that genius will triumph, even against the greatest odds.

You can get one of George’s photographs as a Kickstarter reward, and I’d grab the chance, the prices might be going up.

Life has special meaning for photographers, it was for many years the home of some of the world’s greatest photographic artists. David Douglas Duncan, a celebrated Life photographer, discovered George peddling his photographs on the street in Manhattan and brought him to the attention of the world. This is a great day for George, a crowning affirmation of one of the great urban landscape photographers of the modern world.