An Electrician Took These Last Photos From Inside World Trade Center in the Weeks Before the Tragic Events of 9/11

Konstantin Petrov, an Estonian immigrant and night-shift electrician at the World Trade Center’s “Windows on the World” restaurant, used his unique access to document the Twin Towers’ interiors during the quiet summer nights of 2001.

His haunting photographs—featuring empty offices, stairwells, and breathtaking dawn views—offer a rare and intimate glimpse into the buildings before their destruction. Petrov narrowly escaped the 9/11 attacks, leaving the site just minutes before the first plane struck, only to tragically die in a motorcycle accident a year later. His images, later discovered on the Estonian site Fotki by a filmmaker in 2014, have since become a poignant visual archive of a lost world.

h/t: vintag.es