Working on the Village Halloween Parade means stepping inside a temporary city.

For one night, the streets of Greenwich Village stop being corridors of movement and become a living stage. Identities dissolve, rules soften, anonymity becomes expression. The parade is not a show observed from a distance. It is something you enter, physically and visually.

This project was built around that immersion.

Beyond the spectacle of costumes and lights, I focused on the human architecture of the event: the preparation, the tension before the march, the details stitched by hand, the moments of stillness between one performance and the next. Faces half hidden by masks. Strangers becoming characters. A controlled chaos that only exists for a few hours, then disappears.

My role was to translate this transformation into a visual narrative. Not just documenting what happens, but how the city changes while it happens.

Through photography and field work, I followed the parade from inside its flow, capturing performers, volunteers, musicians, and the fragile balance between organization and disorder that allows such a massive ritual to exist.

The result is a body of work that tells the story of an event not as entertainment, but as collective identity.

Because the Village Halloween Parade is more than a celebration.
It is a moment in which a city rehearses another version of itself.
And for one night, becomes someone else.