New York's Century-Old Subways: From a Trickle to a Flood
A dark train tunnel, where all you can see are two red headlights of a chugging train car, the small guiding lights on the walls, and thin trail of water between the rails reflecting all the lights.
Photo by Peter Bayandin, iPhone
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A solo research project that lasted 3 months, I interviewed experts about New York MTA’s increasingly concerning patterns of Subway tunnel floodings — and discovering how worried we should be for more.
CLICK THE IMAGE — or this link. The story above is told through a series of interviews conducted with the people most familiar with the flooding — the people cleaning it, the higher ups fixing it, the scientists studying it, and the people standing in it.
The punchy personalities of the interviewees lead the story, and their perspectives changed the narrative and some expectations of what the threat of a flood really means, to these people.
Audio Story by Peter Bayandin, using a Tascam Audio Recorder and Premier Pro
Poster
It is fairly easy to track down professionals in their chosen field — if you want to talk to them about their jobs, finding them on the job or emailing their workplace is a fairly straight shot. By that method, I tracked down people who cleaned up after floods, higher ups who worked to prevent them, and scientists that studied them.
It’s much more ambiguous asking the average Joe if they had any personal experiences with flooded Subways.
The creative approach prevailed. I made dozens of both Light and Dark versions of this poster.
Graphic Design by Peter Bayandin, using ProCreate
Photography
Although an audio story, capturing the atmosphere felt important. Don’t be fooled — despite the floods, these stations were as busy as they ever were.
A testament to human endurance, or a commendation to the MTA, that the floods never stayed floods for long?
A shot of an above-ground train station at some nebulous dawn-dusk time, shadows dark but the foggy-grey-blue sky still fairly light. Yellow neon lights line the edge of the platform roof, yellow hazard paint lines the edge of the platform itself, and no-crossing barriers are placed in between the two tracks across the platform. The barriers are tied together like a chain-gang. The atmosphere is eerie and calm.
Photo by Peter Bayandin, using Canon a Camera
