Thomas E. Franklin (born 1966) is an American photographer for The Bergen Record, best known for his photograph Raising the Flag at Ground Zero, which depicts firefighters raising the American flag at the World Trade Center after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Table of Contents
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 9/11 Photo - 3 Firefighters Raising Flag Signed By Thomas E. Franklin PSA/DNA
- 1.2 The House of Hapsburg: The Reigning Austrian Dynasty
- 1.3 The 4th Degree Oath of the Knights of Columbus: An un- American Secret Society Bound to the Italian Pope by Pledges of Treason and Murder
- 1.4 Psych
- 1.5 The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes: The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction: The Famous Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature
- 1.6 Summer School
- 1.7 Summary of First Principles by Thomas E. Ricks : What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
- 1.8 This Is Soul
- 1.9 R&B Holiday Dinner Party
- 1.10 Sunday Mornings
Biography
Franklin is a 1988 graduate of the State University of New York at Purchase. He has been with The Record since 1993, and has been a professional photojournalist and documentary photographer for beyond 20 years. He has won numerous awards for his photography, and his put it on has been widely published and exhibited.
In 2005, his documentary film Ford’s Toxic Legacy won the New Jersey Film Festival’s Best Jersey Film tribute and the New Jersey Press Photographers Association’s New Jersey Understanding award. Based on The Record‘s award-winning Toxic Legacy series, which exposed toxic dumping by the Ford Motor Company and its impact upon the Ramapough Indians and the environment, Franklin was share of a team of reporters who acknowledged the 2005 IRE Medal—the summit national questioning award—the 2006 Grantham Prize for Environmental Journalism, and the 2005 Sigma Delta Chi Award, for Toxic Legacy.
Franklin has appeared on radio and television many become old to discuss his photography. He has been a guest on many national programs, including The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, and Oprah. He has been a guest lecturer at major colleges and universities vis-а-vis the country and remains a very sought-after public speaker in his local community, where he frequently speaks to civics groups, schools, corporations, and local organizations as a motivational speaker, sharing his unique experiences of 9/11 and his career.
He produced a weekly photo-column in The Record called ‘Picture This’, featuring lustrous aspects of simulation in North Jersey. In 2007, Picture This, received an Award of Excellence from POYi (Pictures of the Year International) and a First Place award in Feature Photography from the New Jersey chapter of Society of Professional Journalists (NJ-SPJ).
Franklin is an assistant professor in the School of Communication and Media at Montclair State University.
Last update 2021-08-06