New West Photo Essay
Halloween 2010 In Pictures
Documenting that time each fall when we become some other part of ourselves.By Greta Rybus, 11-04-10
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Halloween, although over for this year, deserves documenting. It’s the one holiday where it seems entire communities are plunged into a subculture society. It is as if each person gets to choose a new role to play, a new person or thing to be. We get to ask: “For tonight, how do I want to interact with the world? Make it laugh? Turn it on? Impress it? Make it think?” Our costume choices reflect a part of us. It’s art: a holiday where everyone becomes an actor. Pumpkin carving? Sculpture at its finest. Trick-or-treating? Performance art on the grandest of scales. Halloween is made up of self expression.
These shots of Halloween in Missoula reflect that. They were taken in disparate locations: Downtown, at a party, in the mall, at an elementary school and in the gymnasium of Opportunity Resources Inc., a nonprofit helping people with disabilities since 1955. At each location, the spirit of becoming that is Halloween shined as brightly as ever.
Greta Rybus is a freelance photographer who shoots Halloween every year. Because she really, really loves it.
Like this photo essay? Please see our companion feature on this year’s Festival of the Dead in Missoula.
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