Economic Woes

Yesterday I was out shooting the turbulent economy for the Wall Street Journal. Morning started at 630 at the corporate headquarters of Lehman Brothers, the over century-and-a-half old financial services firm that filed the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. My job was to make pretty/interesting photos of the headquarters.

Afterward, I went down to the floor of the stock exchange to take more pictures. Which meant I had to wear a jacket and tie, blah! Then to the New York Mercantile Exchange, and back to the NYSE floor for the closing bell. It turned out I shot the worst drop in the Dow Industrial since 9/11.

It seems our economy is in the pooper. Crap.


Street vendor Vincent Torres prepares eggs outside Lehman Brothers


Broker Terry Toal outside the New York Stock Exchange


Broker on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange


The New York Stock Exchange


Brokers on the floor of the NYSE


Brokers on the floor of the Mercantile Exchange


Lehman Brothers World Headquarters at dawn


Lehman Brothers World Headquarters


Lehman Brothers World Headquarters


Lehman Brothers World Headquarters


Lehman Brothers World Headquarters