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# How Things Fall Apart: Photos from The Rockaways
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/how-things-fall-apart-photos-from-the-rockaways/
- Published: 2012-11-06T16:29:46.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:01:59.000Z
- Description: After yesterday's report on MoMA PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach's efforts to gather volunteers for a second volunteer trip to The Rockaways this upcoming weekend, we felt compelled to share these images by photographer Amanda Kirkpatrick, who traveled to the Queens neighborhood last weekend to docume
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Art, hurricane, Hurricane Sandy, Photo Essays, The Rockaways, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

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After yesterday’s report on MoMA PS1 director [Klaus Biesenbach’s efforts to gather volunteers](https://hyperallergic.com/moma-ps1s-klaus-biesenbach-explains-why-rockaway-needs-your-help-now/) for a second volunteer trip to The Rockaways this upcoming weekend, we felt compelled to share these images by photographer [Amanda Kirkpatrick](http://www.amandakirkpatrick.com/how-things-fall-apart/?ref=hyperallergic.com), who traveled to the devastated Queens neighborhood last weekend to document the aftermath of post-tropical cyclone Sandy.

“After looking at so many photos of the destruction in the Rockaways I was drawn to photograph in a broad and clinical manner, to document the storm damage as purely as possible from the perspective of the transformation of structure within the context of a familiar public space,” she explained.

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