A Brooklyn photographer has managed to turn tragedy into creativity by salvaging pictures thought to be destroyed in Hurricane Sandy and transforming them into psychedelic works of art.

Randy Taylor, 59, almost lost his entire life’s work when his New York storage facility flooded during the deadly superstorm.

“It has all really been a roller coaster of emotions, which started off as a sense of total loss and devastation,” he told Barcroft Media. “There was 300 square feet of storage and everything had been floating for a while and then had sunk down to the bottom.”

Mold and water had destroyed almost all of his 30,000 images that he amassed while covering some of the biggest stories of the 20th and 21st century — including 9/11, the Olympics in Moscow, the World Cup in Argentina and the invasion of Grenada.

But the Pulitzer Prize nominee’s grief eventually became what he calls a “wonderful experience” after Taylor realized some of his photos could probably be restored with some alcohol and a little determination.

“It was a painstaking process of cutting the pictures out, dipping them in alcohol and setting them aside to dry,” he explained to Barcroft.

Using the alcohol to wash off the mold and halt the deterioration, Taylor found that his iconic pictures had taken on a multicolored, kaleidoscope-like appearance.

“You didn’t really see what was going to happen until after it truly dried,” he said. “There was then a moment of transition from it being an entire loss to realizing that some of this could actually be quite artistic.”

Taylor says he was only able to save about 300 photos from his collection. More than 70 of those will be on display at the Stadthaus Ulm art exhibition center in Germany beginning March 26.