After Hurricane Sandy devastated New York City earlier this week, photographer Randy Scott Slavin ventured around various areas that had been plunged into darkness due to power outages. He shot eerie long-exposure photographs that make the city look like a ghost town. The series is titled “NYC Unplugged.”

Although the long-exposure times offer us a glimpse into the darkness, Slavin writes that it was pitch black in many places:

New York City is always bright. Street lights, business marquees, light from apartments and car headlights merge to light every corner of the city streets, even on the darkest nights. It is the night after NYC was decimated by Hurricane Sandy, downtown NYC is in the midst of a power outage that has plunged it into complete darkness. I felt the call to hit the eerily dark streets and show New York as it is rarely seen. Trekking around with my tripod I was able to get the long exposures necessary to see in the dark.

You can see more photographs from this series on in this Facebook album.

P.S. Earlier this year we featured some of Slavin’s surreal 360-degree stereographic projections.

Image credits: Photographs by Randy Scott Slavin and used with permission