Here is New York:
A Democracy of Photographs
New York: Scalo, 2002
Here is New York was founded in response to the events of September 11, 2001 and to the flood of images that resulted from it. The idea was simple: to present images of the event by as many different people and from as many different perspectives as possible. In the days following September 11, the organizers asked for pictures from photographers of every description, not only top photojournalists and other professionals, but also from rescue workers, firemen, police officers, school children and amateurs of every kind. In order to underline that it was the images rather than their makers that mattered, the photographs were all digitally scanned, printed out in exactly the same format and hung from wires without attribution or frames in a downtown Manhattan storefront. Direct without being voyeuristic, these images convey an array of different responses to the tragedy, bear witness to what seemed unimaginable and memorialize both the people who perished and the rescue workers who served so heroically.
