Voices of 9.11 - a video/oral history archive.
Voices of 9.11 was established at here is new york: a democracy of photographs. I began there as a volunteer photo editor but as people shared their images with us they also shared their stories and it quickly became clear how the personal narrative was being impacted by the force of the mainstream media. There was a clear need for a safe place for a people's archive of our experience of 9.11. I established Voices of 9.11 in 2002. Over the course of a year we collected over 550 video testimonies in New York, Shanksville, PA, Washington DC and the Pentagon. A private video booth was built. There were absolutely no restrictions placed on what people could or could not say. They were free to speak in whatever language they felt most comfortable and for as long or short a time as they wanted. The collection has been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the New York Historical Society.
Please watch the testimonies
For more on the history of the project and its current status please see Susan Faludi's Terror Dream (p. 287 - 298)
documentation of Voices of 9.11 in the Pentagon: