Barren Berlin Frame Color:Unframed climbing a narrow 40-foot ladder

climbing a narrow 40-foot ladder in order to maintain the floodlights that light the torch

" wrote David Winzelbergjune in The Times a week before this photo was taken

who was on assignment to document the sprawling Savannah River Project

chairman on the committee of aviation

" Times staff photographer Carl T

Barren Berlin Frame Color:Unframed climbing a narrow 40-foot ladderThis stark image of Alexanderplatz public square is part of a collection of photos of once bustling locations that were rendered deserted by the global health crisis of 2020. Despite the emptiness or because of it, the locations took on a haunting beauty captured in The Times article, The Great Empty. During the height of the coronavirus outbreak in March 2020, The Times sent dozens of photographers out to take images of popular public plazas,