Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs

On the 20th anniversary of the attack on New York’s Twin Towers, we revisit Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs, the first crowd-sourced exhibition of its scale dedicated to images of 9/11 and its aftermath, with thousands of photographers—amateur and professional alike—exhibited together. Here’s how it happened. 

      Lower Manhattan before 9/11 © Charles Traub, Courtesy Here is New York

It started with two, then with four. Michael Shulan, a writer who owned a storefront on Prince Street, was on the phone with the photographer Gilles Peress,...

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