GHOST TOWN SANDY: THE HURRICANE'S AFTERMATH AT NIGHT

GHOST TOWN SANDY: THE HURRICANE'S AFTERMATH AT NIGHT The plant is getting warmer and, as it does, our sea levels keep rising. Few events better put that phenomenon on display than Hurricane Sandy: The storm sent a wall of water raging through communities in New York and New Jersey, shredding apart the places so many people called home. That's what happened to Union Beach, N.J. Few were spared in the working-class town of 6,200. More than 500 houses were damaged, and over 110 were destroyed. Now, homeowners, local officials and contractors swarm in each day, picking up the pieces one brick at a time. Then they vanish each night, leaving Union Beach to its own devices. These photographs tell that story - capturing the haunting silence that sets in every 24 hours when the sun dips behind the horizon. The images were all taken with long exposures, ranging from 1 to 30 seconds. The only light illuminating the subject matter is ambient.

Aristide joined the staff of The (Newark NJ) Star-Ledger in November 2000, where he covers a variety of topics from urban violence to prep sports. He has traveled extensively documenting wide-ranging events from the Olympic Games in Athens, Greece to the recovery effort in Port au Prince, Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake. Aris’s photographs have been exhibited at museums and galleries throughout the United States and internationally. He also lectured at numerous institutions including presenting his work at a 2002 symposium on the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in Manhattan at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. Previously he worked at the State Journal-Register in Springfield, IL and the Dubois County Herald in Jasper, IN. A native of Bethesda, Maryland, Economopoulos resides in Jersey City, New Jersey.