Soon after, a friend, photographer Gilles Peress, called to see how he was doing. “I replied that I was in the shop staring at a group of people staring at a photograph,” Shulan later wrote, “and was thinking about putting up some more. ‘Do it,’ he said simply.”

Over the next few days, Shulan and Peress recruited friends Alice Rose George, a curator and editor, and Charles Traub, photographer and chair of MFA Photography, Video and Related Media, and the group put out a public call for any images taken on 9/11. Soon, people began to drop by with their photos. Volunteers—many of them SVA students and staff—worked to scan, print and hang the pictures in the space. They called the show “here is new york” (“hiny”), after writer E.B. White’s post–World War II love letter to the city, setting it in all lowercase to fit with the subtitle: “a democracy of photographs.”

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