For 20 years, Seymour Licht has spent Halloween venturing below ground to capture outlandish costumes against the gritty backdrop of train carriages and stations
Hare raising … an image from Halloween Underground: New York Subway Portraits by Seymour Licht. Photograph: Seymour Licht
Halloween Underground captures Seymour Licht’s 20-year long quest to photograph people dressed up in outlandish costumes against the backdrop of the drab, gritty New York transit system. Originally the project began as a way to document the famously flamboyant Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. But Licht followed his instincts and found himself drawn more to the isolated, solitary, disguised individuals below ground, waiting on the subway platform or inside a train car for their stop to arrive.