Fordham law alumni Udi Ofer ’01 and Damian A. Treffs ’11 were mentioned in The New York Times where the article follows up on where their lives are today, five years after participating in Occupy Wall Street protest in Lower Manhattan.
I photographed Udi on Nov. 15, 2011, the morning that protesters were ejected from Zuccotti Park. I didn’t know at that time that he was a lawyer with the New York City chapter of the A.C.L.U. He stood out that day among the throng of protesters and police officers with his neatly pressed suit and tie. He seemed an island of calm and I was delighted when he agreed to be photographed.
Two years later, he became head of the A.C.L.U. in New Jersey.
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When I met Damian, tensions were high. It was the day after Department of Sanitation snowplows had razed the protesters’ encampment beneath the glare of spotlights beamed down by helicopters. The police had corralled the press away from the scene.
Damian now is a lawyer for Transport Workers Union and is a new father.
