 From 1994 until 1998 McNally was "Life magazine's" staff photographer, the first one in 23 years.His most well known series is the "Faces of Ground Zero — Portraits of the Heroes of September 11th", a collection of 246 giant Polaroid portraits shot in the Moby C Studio near Ground Zero in a three week period shortly after 9/11.A large group of these life-size (9' x 4') photos were exhibited in seven cities in 2002, seen by almost a million people.