November 16, 2001

HSPH’s Occupational Health Program will open a memorial exhibit by nationally known photographer Earl Dotter entitled "When Duty Calls: A Tribute to New York City Firefighters" today, Friday, November 16, from 2 p.m to 4 p.m. The exhibit continues through December 6 and is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekdays.

"When Duty Calls" is a series of 38 black-and-white and color photographs that honor those who died on September 11, 2001, as well as their families and friends. It also honors those who are presently working at the World Trade Center (WTC) site. The photographs were taken on September 23 and 24 at various firehouses in the WTC area and at other WTC locations.

Dotter has chronicled hazardous work in America for the past 20 years and has won numerous awards. In 1997, he exhibited at HSPH "A Quiet Sickness: A Chronicle of Hazardous Work in America," which subsequently toured New England as an outreach activity of the Occupational Health Program and the National Institute of Environmental Health and Safety’s (NIEHS) Kresge Center for Environmental Health. Another exhibit, "The Price of Fish," was recently completed with funding from the Alicia Patterson Foundation. Dotter will be present at the opening.

Sponsorship for the exhibition of "When Duty Calls" at HSPH was provided by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)-Harvard Education and Research Center (ERC) and the Occupational Health Program, the NIEHS Kresge Center for Environmental Health, The Harvard Environmental Council, and Liberty Mutual-Harvard Program in Occupational Health and Safety. It is an outreach activity of the NIOSH-Harvard ERC and the NIEHS-Kresge Community Outreach and Education Program.