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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ANTI FUR PROTEST | Soho NYC

While walking last week through Broome Street in the heart of SoHo’s shopping district, I came across a small spirited but vociferous anti-fur protest, which aimed at drawing attention to animal cruelty in the fashion industry.

To me, documenting civil disobedience is like catnip to a cat, so I snapped a handful of frames of the raucous event.

I haven't seen nor heard of anti-fur protests for quite some time, and read in the New York Times that the anti-fur movement has been largely successful in its efforts to force fashion houses to stop using skins, with almost every runway brand adopting fake fur as a fabric and eschewing the use of former luxury staples such as mink and sable.

CROSBY STREET | 65:24 Aspect Ratio

One of my favorite streets in Soho, NYC, is Crosby Street. Some of its buildings have walls always covered in “illegal” posters and ads, which I think make perfect backdrops—not just for my street fashion shoots, but also for everyday street photography with the Fujifilm GFX50R, using the super wide 65:24 X-Pan aspect ratio everyone raves about.

More of the Crosby Street in 65:24 photographs will be uploaded soon.

Call Me KIJU

Here are impromptu street portraits of Kiju on Crosby Street in Soho, NYC. Kiju is an alternative rock performer.

SoHo's Fashion Billboards

Some of my street fashion shoots begin at the corner of Houston and Crosby Streets, and on several occasions, I attempted to position the models so the massive Calvin Klein billboard would feature in the background. However, it always ended up overexposed.

Still, this sparked the idea for a mini-project showcasing Soho's iconic billboards, especially with the buzz of New York Fashion Week in town. This is an ongoing project, and this post updated whenever I have new billboards to show.

A few interesting details about these 75-foot billboards: they are typically contracted for 28-day periods and can range in price from $5,000 to an astonishing $50,000 per day, depending on the location. For instance, if the Calvin Klein billboard is in a prime spot, it would cost approximately $1.4 million every 28 days, with its image updated every two weeks.