Fergie

16x20 inch Black & White print on Epson Art Cotton Smooth 250 gram paper. From the NYC Village Halloween Parade, 1982–86.

A playful moment of 1980s satire is frozen in time at the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, where a reveler holds a cardboard cutout mask of Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, affectionately known as Fergie. Captured on a 35mm Pentax with the signature high-contrast grain of Tri-X film, the scene features the masked figure waving high to the New York City crowd, embodying the era's fascination with pop culture. Beside them, a woman in a thick, spotted faux-fur coat and dramatic, winged eyeliner looks toward the lens, her features sharpened by the intense, direct light of a Norman 200B flash. This black-and-white frame perfectly preserves the DIY spirit and irreverent energy that pulsed through the NYC streets during this mid-decade celebration.