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Mirrored Website: Here is New York (hereisnewyork.com)

This is a download of all the images from http://hereisnewyork.com. Here is New York is an exhibition of the World Trade Center disaster. Photography was the perfect medium to express what happened on 9.11, since it is democratic by its very nature and infinitely reproducible. The tragedy at Ground Zero struck all New Yorkers equally, leaving none of us immune to shock or grief. Although the disaster was the lead story in every newspaper in the world, and searing footage of the planes destroying the towers was running on television 24 hours a day, to New Yorkers this wasn’t a news story: it was an unabsorbable nightmare. In order to come to grips with all of this imagery which was haunting us, it was essential, we thought, to reclaim it from the media and stare at it without flinching. Terrorism was all too familiar in other parts of the world, but it had rarely happened in the United States, and never on such a scale. Besides announcing that this is the face of our city’s tragedy, the title here is new york declares that we understand the problem of terrorism to be a global one that respects no geographic or cultural boundaries. After 9.11, New York is Everywhere.

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