the Lens: viewing the 9/11 memorial
Staff photographer Amy Dreher snaps a lot of pictures at the World Trade Center site, documenting the construction progress of the 9/11 Memorial. Amy also trains her lens on the smaller pieces that may be overlooked with a project of this magnitude. Through “The Lens: Viewing the 9/11 Memorial,” readers of The MEMO blog can share some of the unique vantage points captured by Amy.
Sun shines through steel: A rising sun is framed in the erected steel of the 9/11 Memorial Museum's pavilion. Visitors will enter the pavilion and descend 70 feet below to the main exhibition space of the museum once it's open in 2012.
By Michael Frazier, Sr. Communications Manager for the 9/11 Memorial
In the fall of 2001, New York University’s Child Study Center embarked on an ambitious project to study children's artwork triggered by 9/11. The artworks culminated in a book by Harry Abrams called "The Day Our World Changed" and an exhibition that debu
Listen to a group of teachers and administrators recall their experiences evacuating school children from their classrooms at PS 234, a public elementary school located a few blocks from the World Trade Center site in the downtown Manhattan neighborhood o