Hector, We Are Waiting For You
date: label: Date made
content: 2001
name: label: maker
content: Lokuta, Donald
notes: label: Description
content: Donald Lokuta’s “Hector, We Are Waiting for You” portrays a chain link fence with wilted flowers surrounding multiple missing persons posters. The most prominent poster is the center “Hector, we are waiting for you” poster for a New York fireman. This photograph is part of the series “Missing: September 11, 2001”. Lokuta, unlike other photographers, photographed only missing person’s ads and the people associated with them. “It was about the people – those missing souls and the families and friends searching to find them, searching for any bit of information.”
label: Description
content: Donald Lokuta prides himself in shooting “the emotional response caught in a moment off guard” rather than the expected poses or subject matter. On September 13, he ventured into Manhattan to photograph the people there. He focused mainly on the people at the National Guard Armory to see and hear the people and their stories. Lokuta is currently a free lance photographer based in New York City.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: September 11 Terrorist Attacks
label: Subject
content: Terrorism
label: related event
content: September 11th Attacks
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0220.01
label: accession number
content: 2003.0220
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0220.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Photograph
label: Object Name
content: photograph, chromogenic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 in x 20 in; 40.64 cm x 50.8 cm