NYC's PRIDE 2026

 

On Pride Day, rather than documenting the day's scenes as spectacle as I had done in the past years, I approached it as portraiture project—an archive of presence. I also chose monochrome instead of color, stripping away the distraction of spectacle so the images could settle on personalities, expressions, and the moments.

What interested me most was to isolate the person(s) excluding the exuberance of the crowd , turning the photograph into an intimate moment between the subject(s) and me. In black and white, the photographs become more about essence: identity, dignity, and the visual language of belonging.

In subsequent editing, I tried to emulate Richard Avedon's minimalistic style.

"Candy"

Stranger

Strangers

Strangers

"Marilyn"

"Sirène"

"Knight" & friend

Strangers

Unknown

NAKBA : Day Of Rememberance

 

Nakba, meaning "catastrophe" in Arabic, refers to the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, which resulted in around 750,000 Palestinians being expelled or fleeing their homes. It is a deeply traumatic event in Palestinian collective memory and continues to shape their struggle for justice and their right to return to their homes. (Source:Wikipedia)

I photographed the Remembrance event in Washington Square Park, Manhattan, New York City, on Friday, May 15, 2026. The event was attended by hundreds of people of various religious denominations, and of different races and heritage.

The young women seen in the crowds move through demonstrations with their keffiyeh folded and tied—not merely as fabric but as a banner that maps history across their shoulders.

MAY DAY PROTESTS | Washington Square Park

 

“May Day” stems from the labor movement that blossomed in the late 1800s, with workers trying to reduce their work hours from up to 20 hours a day to eight hours a day.

Those demands, along with demands for better wages and working conditions, continued into the 1880s when a powerful union established May 1, 1886 as a day for a general strike to push for the eight-hour work day.

Four years later, May Day, or “International Worker’s Day,” was observed around the world for the first time.

These are some photographs I made of a May Day protest at Washington Square Park on Friday, May 1, 2026.

New York City's Mayor Zohran Mamdani gave a speech under its Arch, but I was too late to attended it.

I was given this flyer by one of the marchers:

MAMBAKO | Percussion In Washington Square Park

Mambako is a professional artistic group of drums, dance and theater that performed at Washington Square Park on March 28, 2026. The group is originally from Bogota, Colombia and aims at diversity, equality and art as a channel of freedom and transformation.