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These images were captured while on assignment with The New York Times as part of a special interactive feature: The Nights When New York Felt Alive Again — a collective of work featuring 40 photographers and 9 reporters sent out to cover the late night happenings in our city when we began to open up.
For this assignment, I photographed the Gigs x Gaga drag queen performance at The Sultan Room followed by dancing and karaoke at Heaven or Las Vegas in Brooklyn, New York on June 18, 2021.
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