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

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