Twin Towers Go Global is pleased to announce Jonathan Hyman as the first confirmed jury member for our ongoing open call, a competition where people imagine the Twin Towers rebuilt around the world. Hyman is a Bethel, NY-based artist recognized for his ongoing work documenting vernacular memorials to 9/11. In addition to capturing the many public responses to the attacks created in and around New York City, Hyman has travelled from Maine to Florida and parts of the Midwest, photographing the very personal expressions of shock, grief, and the urge to commemorate felt by people across the country. The result is a moving and historically significant archive of over 20,000 photographs, shot both on film and digitally, which, in the words of curator Shannon Perich, captures “the intersection between national tragedy, personal experience and public expression.”
Hyman’s work has been published in Time Magazine, and was shown in two museum exhibitions held in honor of the five-year anniversary of 9/11: 9/11 and the American Landscape: Photographs by Jonathan Hyman, organized by the National September 11 Memorial and Museum; and 9/11: A Nation Remembers at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. His work is currently being exhibited in a show called 9/11: Visual Response on the Street at the Sylvia Wald + Po Kim art gallery in New York City, as well as a special 10th anniversary one-man show at Duke University, which can also be viewed online. In addition to his 9/11 memorial project, Hyman lectures widely in the US and abroad, and is Associate Director for Conflict and Visual Culture Initiatives at the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania.
If you would like to nominate someone for the jury, please send their name, contact information, and why you think they would be appropriate to open.call@twintowersgoglobal.org. If you want to submit a proposal for the open call, just email it to the same address.
