Seymour Licht’s book, Halloween Underground transports the viewer into the realm of the uncanny and phantasmagoric. In his talk, Licht will present his 20-year odyssey of documenting costumed shapeshifters in the New York subway and highlight the themes of identity, liminality, communal ritual, and the boundary between life and death. Halloween Underground is his tribute to the creative, resourceful New Yorkers who on October 31st transform themselves and the mass transit system into an otherworldly spectacle.
A psychiatrist in private practice in Manhattan and an award-winning photographer, Seymour Licht’s work has been featured in The New York Times, CNN, The Guardian, The Paris Review, and the New York Post, among many other media outlets. He trained at Mt. Sinai Medical Center and studied photography at the International Center of Photography.
Please join us for this subterranean journey and discussion!
Frances V. Dillon, MSW, and Eric Dammann, PhD, are Co-Directors of The Artist Study Group