MY WTC - a fascinating crowd-sourced collection of photos of the World Trade Center

By Jack Brummet, Travel Editor

Check out MY WTC, a crowd-sourced blog with 


"a comprehensive collection of private photographs of the former World Trade Center in NYC. The idea behind this project of Robert Ziegler and Stefka Ammon is to document and describe analytically the specific aura, meaning and significance of this architectural and cultural complex from the angle of visitors’ and tourists’ images from all over the world."


"This blog does not include images of September 11th’s events and does not intend to comment on them either. It wants to explore how a symbolic architecture enters private narratives and claims global consciousness alike."   


"From it’s very beginning (the construction period in the late 60s) until September 2001 the World Trade Center had a great appeal on tourists and visitors of New York City as only a few architectures do in metropolises: who ever has been there, had a picture taken of him-, her- or themselves in front of, on top of or inside this building. This kind of fascination based on cultural projections is what this blog wants to capture."

They include photographs (366 and counting) from many countries around the world, showing the World Trade Center from a variety of perspectives.

You can find my contribution on this page.

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