New York’s first Pride March was held on June 28, 1970, to mark the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Riots which had followed a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village gay bar. At that time it would never have happened in Greece, and it was impressive.” The event which he found himself witnessing during that summer visit to New York was however something new to him, “I had never before seen a gay parade. The Greek photographer, who had joined Magnum eight years earlier, had at that point been photographing the Balkan Peninsula extensively, focusing on the region’s ethnic, national, and religious fault lines as well as unifying cultural traits which he felt tied disparate-seeming peoples together.
In 1998 Nikos Economopoulos was in New York City for Magnum Photos’ Annual General Meeting.
