jazz and colors: the jazz at lincoln center all-stars

@ the jazz and colors festival

cherry hill/central park

nov 10, 2012

all photos © anita aguilar

jazz and colors: the yes! trio

...aaron goldberg, omer avital, and ali jackson

(bonus star sighting: bill cunningham, in his famous blue smock and bike)

@ jazz and colors, central park

nov 10, 2012
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all photos © anita aguilar

st. patrick's day parade 2012: portraits, lakeland high school

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"there'll be no desafinado"

(getting in tune...)

i wish i'd taken video, so you could hear just how good they are. but i hope you like the set as much as i enjoyed making the photos:

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 all photos © anita aguilar

st. patrick's day parade 2012: portraits, west milford high school

st. patrick's day parade 2012: fun for all ages

a sharp-dressed gent

students from st. joseph by-the-sea high school, in staten island

"plus 1"

"greenbeard," from the erstwhile power memorial high school

i love the little irish dancers' expressions here...

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all photos © anita aguilar

fashion week 2012: on display

one of my favorite things about fashion week at lincoln center is the use of alice tully hall as a staging area. its open facade--a 3-story glass wall--effectively "pulls back" the curtain, so we can see the models wearing the collection, the artists, stylists and designers working on finishing touches before the "performance" and the cluster of lucky photographers and reporters who are assigned to capture it all.

but for me there's also an interesting interaction with street life, as shown in some of the reflections: the surrounding architecture, the pedestrians and observers, cars and cabs, "meet" the action inside in a random but dynamic way. i wanted to try to capture that energy or that idea; these were all taken before the rachel roy show. i think a few of these are better than others, but it was a fun experiment.

i hope you like them.

all photos © anita aguilar

fashion week 2012: style icon

...and who I consider the "IT" woman of the week (the fashion industry?), and probably the only person i personally wanted a photo of:

kate lanphear

(i snapped her outside the mark jacobs show last night)

ms. lanphear, feb 13, 2012, nyc.

both photos © anita aguilar

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hooray! that's all i need from fashion week 2012!

(but i've actually got more fun ones of "the scene" to post, which i'll hope to share soon)

pretty city 2011: good looking

my favorite twosome, taking in the view at mile 22 of the nyc marathon...

@ marcus garvey park, east harlem.

nov 6, 2011

© anita aguilar

pretty city 2011: the dash to the finish line

snapshots from a very spirited pre-marathon 5k, "the dash to the finish" in central park

my friend, steph!

ryan hall - love the 5 boro gloves and the official ing marathon cap

all photos taken on nov 5, 2011

© anita aguilar