Pride in Washington Square Park
The intersection of celebration and activism, exploring how expressions of identity transform within increasingly liberal and commercialized spaces.
Pride in Washington Square Park follows the gathering across several Junes, when the park becomes a dense field of performance, recognition and public assembly. Clothing, signs, bodies and cameras make identity insistently visible.
The photographs hold celebration beside the political history that made it possible. Pride can create solidarity and pleasure while also being shaped by branding, tourism and the pressure to perform visibility. The same spectacle that amplifies a community can simplify its differences.
Rather than measuring the event against an ideal version of protest, the series stays with its contradictions. It asks what public visibility can accomplish, what it leaves out and how a movement changes when liberation, commerce and entertainment occupy the same space.
