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Blake pinged me to ask if we’d meet at the office tomorrow. I think I’ll ask how he proposes we get there.

Here’s the South Ferry subway stop in lower Manhattan, courtesy of the MTA. — Michael

Hurricane Sandy After Landfall

The Atlantic has compiled a series of beautifully striking photos of the aftermath of Sandy, which you can view here. 

Image: Seawater pours into the Ground Zero construction site in New York, on October 29, 2012 (AP/John Minchillo)

New York City Subway, 86th Street

Via Stephen Dimmick.

UPDATE: via Elle Perez, “This is a low lying area in Brooklyn, which should be added to the caption.” After looking through a series of images (Google), and conferring with Jihii, whose beat was out there, it’s a Bay Ridge subway stop.

Stormy New York City

Via Inga Sarda-Sorensen.

Drawing inspiration from the Great Depression collaboration between the US Farm Security Administration, photographers and documentarians, the non-profit collective Facing Change teamed up with the Library of Congress to capture America over 4th of July weekend.

Way back when, the FSA sent photographers across the country to document rural poverty and produced some of the most iconic images of that time. Facing Change has similar ambitions.

The Facing Change / Library of Congress collaboration allows the LOC to both archive and publish books based on Facing Change images. In a June press release, the Library wrote:

Facing Change was founded in 2009 by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographers Anthony Suau and Lucian Perkins and is a contemporary counterpart to the work done in the 1930s and 1940s by photographers employed by the Farm Security Administration, a federal project that documented the experiences of Americans at all economic levels during the Great Depression and World War II…

…The collaborative agreement announced today will allow the Library to publish books based on the Facing Change images, which document numerous aspects of contemporary American life through photographs, sound and video files. The Library will begin by exploring born-digital archiving and preservation practices with the Facing Change photographers, building on experience gained through the Library’s National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.

Last Fall, the New York Times Lens Blog profiled Facing Change, explaining at the time:

Facing Change will pay photographers a day rate and reimburse expenses. Whatever money comes in — from foundations, individuals or the sale of images — will go back into financing more projects, [the organization’s founder Anthony] Suau said. “Nobody is going to get rich,” he said. “We just sincerely believe that it is important to document what’s going on within the country.”

Above: 4th of July celebration at Coney Island Beach by Anthony Suau | Facing Change July 4 Slideshow.