In the summer of 2001, he took hundreds of digital photographs. Most show offices, laid tables, upholstered seating, wall lights, staircases, kitchen appliances and elevator fittings.
Petrov’s shift ended at 8 a.m. He generally stayed for coffee with colleagues on the morning shift. On September 11, 2001, he went home immediately after work. As he drove out of the basement garage, the first plane struck the building. He saw debris and only learned what had happened when he turned on the news at home. He called his friends at the restaurant and never spoke to them again.
According to Petrov’s friend Dmitri Don, in 2002, about a year after he began working at Windows on the World, Petrov crashed his motorcycle on Manhattan’s West Side Highway. Don said that he was pronounced dead on the spot.
