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The Guardian, 2002

It became New York's family album, a public scrapbook, a repository for pictures about September 11, in itself perhaps the most photographed event in American history.

The pictures were hung in a small shop in downtown Manhattan, pictures taken on 9/11 and in the aftermath, at Ground Zero, from rooftops, bridges, in the wreckage, at the memorials.

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Taken by amateurs, professionals, fire-fighters, kids, cops, investment bankers. They called it Here is New York and it touched a nerve.

Over the year, people jammed into the little space in SoHo, almost a million of them.

Tomorrow, on the first anniversary of September 11, there will be versions of Here is New York across America and around the world - in Tampa, Florida, and Louisville, Kentucky, in Chicago and Washington, Tokyo, Berlin, Zurich and London, where it opens at the Guardian Newsroom.

A thousand photographs will be on display