NEW YORK, NY.- #Sandy (Daylight Books, October 29, 2014) is a book of nearly 100 iPhone photographs of Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath captured by twenty veteran photographers. After Sandy devastated communities in New York City, New Jersey, and Connecticut in October of 2012, the New York based Foley Gallery, and photographer Wyatt Gallery, organized a one-night-only exhibition of iPhone photographs of the storm. Hundreds of people attended the event, and almost 400 photographs were purchased. As a result, $19,000 was donated to

Occupy Sandy and Third Wave Volunteers. That same month, the photographs were shown in the Rising Waters: Photographs of Sandy exhibition at the Museum of The City of New York that opened in October 2013 and remained on view through April 2014.

On October 29, 2014, coinciding with the second anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, a selection of the photographs shown at the event and in the exhibition will be published for the first time in book form. The book's all-star cast of professional photographers includes Benjamin Lowy, 13th Witness, Stephen Wilkes, Ed Kashi/Vll, Michael Christopher Brown, Richard Renaldi, Hank Willis Thomas, Ruddy Roye, Lyle Owerko, Wyatt Gallery, Andrew Quilty, Giles Clarke, Sam Horine, Craig Wetherby, Yosra El-Essawy, Erica Simone, Dylan Chandler, Brent Bartley, Nicole Sweet, and Duffy Higgins.

#Sandy includes a foreword by Sean Corcoran, Curator of Prints and Photographs, Museum of the City of New York, and an essay titled "The Truth In Your Pocket" by Creative Director and Digital Strategist, Eddie Brannan.

In his foreword, Sean Corcoran describes the resulting photographs as creating "a unique time capsule that exemplifies the complex nature of the storm and its impact on a relatively small region with very diverse geography ... these images demonstrate the power of photography to document and tell poignant stories."

The photographers in #Sandy used the iPhone to spectacular effect to document the Super Storm and the widespread destruction it left behind. Among the images is a tanker ship beached on Staten Island, a wave surge crashing over a wall in Brooklyn, a New York City firefighter standing amidst the ruins of Breezy Point, Queens after the storm surge set off massive fires that consumed over 150 homes, a beach front home in Union Beach, New Jersey in tatters, a graffiti wall taunting the storm, hundreds of New Yorkers from Rockaway waiting on line for gasoline, and a woman crying as she searches for personal belongings amidst the ruins.

The book includes testimonials from people who weathered the storm courtesy of "Sandy Storyline."

John Cori of Rockaway Beach, Queens, writes: "People are forgetting what happened to us. We're just another big storm away from it happening again. We have massively eroded beaches, we don't have a sea wall, we don't have protection and I think people are getting very complacent."

Binky Glennon, also from Rockaway Beach, writes: "We were one of the lucky ones. We were inconvenienced. We just lost a lot of stuff, but we're okay. We're still working on coming back. It still makes me cry. If this is a hundred-year storm, I want to live for Ninety-Nine Years."

#Sandy is dedicated to the people whose lives were affected by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. 100% of the royalties will be donated to Occupy Sandy to support their continuous rebuilding efforts.