Occupy Times Square — 2011

In the fall of 2011, Times Square — usually a stage for advertising and spectacle — became a gathering place for protest. As part of the Occupy Wall Street movement, thousands filled the streets to demand economic justice, carrying hand‑painted signs, chanting, and confronting the symbols of power that surrounded them.

These photographs focus not on the billboards or police barricades, but on the people themselves — faces lit by neon, voices raised in unison. In the middle of one of the world’s busiest intersections, amid uncertainty and defiance, a different kind of community formed.

The images capture that fleeting moment when the center of consumer culture became a site of resistance, and when public space transformed into a platform for collective voice.