A DAY OF PRIDE | 2026

 

I attended Pride Day at Washington Square Park on June 28, 2026, using my cameras mostly shooting from the hip, and pressing the shutter when anything caught my eye, with the intention of documenting the same scenes of unrestrained joy I’d captured in previous years.

This time, though, I made a deliberate departure: I set out to eschew color entirely by editing the photographs in high contrast black and white, letting the day’s energy take shape through expressions, shadows and texture rather than hues, so the revelry feels "human", immediate and timeless.

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.