User:David Margules

Bold textDavid Margules has managed to capture the pain and suffering of the nation in his photographic essay “From Dust till Dawn,” showing the effects of the 9/11 bombing of the WTC. The photography is poignant, the lens sensitive to the empty feelings of hundreds of firemen, ironworkers, police, and other rescue personnel. His essay captures their labored yet futile attempts to find decimated bodies of those gone on. The creation of life through the lens; while capturing the emptiness of souls destroyed through no fault of their own, is the book’s central theme. In many ways, this thread represents the focal point of David’s existence. As an artist, David has labored for many years to find life’s meaning. Born 1956 in Forest Hills Queens, of immigrant artistic parents, David found photography as an art form that gave meaning to life. Like all of us, life’s meanderings took his professional career in many directions, from livery to financial services, but ultimately, his passion for the lens provided an aperture to define life. From a personal perspective, recovery, betrayal, setbacks and bleak but not hopeless pitfalls were temporary roadblocks that David, and many of us, circumvent and rise above. As you can see on the painfully elegant pages of his photographic editorial, the betrayal of war on our soil parallels the pitfalls of personal trial. As you peruse the pages, feel the anguish and pain though the eyes of those present and reading. Ultimately, David’s talent of showing the human spirit at its finest in the worst of situations enables hope. 9/11 created a catharsis on a global level; it also created a fundamental and everlasting change in the United States. Because of 9/11, David has done what he was born to do—to show with the lens, that thru death there is life, life everlasting that shall never succumb to the spirit of terror. www.davidmargules.com www.fromdusttildawn.com