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| 1. |  | Michael O'Brien 1998-2002 Julia Breedlove and Sarah Schieffer [Halloween Night: Garage Portraits] Pigmented ink print, archival Various sizes PDNB Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery Julia, dressed for Halloween as a Westlake High School cheerleader when she was in elementary school, realized her dream: She just made the real Chaps cheerleading squad for next year, her freshman year. She titles this photo: "Best Friends Forever." Her favorite part of being a cheerleader is tumbling and performing gymnastics. Sarah calls this picture "Princess and the 'pep'er." The girls are still best friends. |
| 2. |  | Michael O'Brien 1998-2002 Charley and Greg Copp [Halloween Night: Garage Portraits] Pigmented ink print, archival Various sizes PDNB Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery "It's amazing how such large quantities of candy can be obtained on Halloween by a kid with just a little paint on his face and a monkey by his side," says Charley, now 16 and driving. |
| 3. |  | Michael O'Brien 1998-2002 Drew Harrison, Sarah McKetta, and Katelin Craven [Halloween Night: Garage Portraits] Pigmented ink print, archival Various sizes PDNB Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery "This was my last year Trick-or-Treating and I remember having to be convinced to go at all because I felt so old, says Katelin Craven, far right. " In the end I went as a last hurrah of childhood. I remember discovering my mom's old hippie pants from thirty years ago and thinking how cool I was going to be and how amazing they were. I wish I could still fit into them now. But mostly it reminded me of Drew (the boy in the photo) who was my first real boyfriend. Even though we have long since parted ways and lost touch, I still remember all the good times that we shared and all the new things that we discovered together about fist love." |
| 4. |  | Michael O'Brien 1998-2002 John Gerosa, right, and Monster Friend [Halloween Night: Garage Portraits] Pigmented ink print, archival Various sizes PDNB Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery |
| 5. |  | Michael O'Brien 1998-2002 Kate Kelly and Her Brother, Sean McMurrey [Halloween Night: Garage Portraits] Pigmented ink print, archival Various sizes PDNB Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery "The year this picture was taken, I was a bag of jellybeans," says Kate Kelly, a sophomore at LBJ High School. "It was, and still is, my favorite Halloween costume and I remembered being so proud of myself for thinking of it. Before shuffling over to have our picture taken, Sean and I had been arguing about his bland costume. He was wearing his regular clothes but on our way out to go trick-or-treating, had thrown on a janitor's shirt stolen from his school. I was so angry because that shirt was part of his regular attire anyway and to me, Halloween was the one night when you were supposed to become someone, or something, else." |
| 6. |  | Michael O'Brien 1998-2002 Yanik Jayaram and Leighton Harris [Halloween Night: Garage Portraits] Pigmented ink print, archival Various sizes PDNB Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery "I remember dressing up for Halloween," says Yanik, now a freshman at Berkeley and a drummer in a jazz band. "It was a lot of fun pretending to be someone else, and that Halloween I decided to go as a bum. It was always sort of an unspoken contest to see whose costume got the best response from people as we went trick-or-treating door to door, and I definitely lost that year as my costume was no match for Leighton's pimp suit." "Dressing up as a pimp was something new to me," says Leighton, now in his first year at St. Edward's University, and a part-time employee of Washington Mutual bank. "I was headed to my 8th-grade Halloween dance when this picture was taken, and I remember thinking how cool I was in my costume. 'Man, everyone is going to think I look so good in this, I can't wait!' Although I will never actually be a womanizer, it was a good time testing the waters at that young age." |
| 7. |  | Michael O'Brien 1998-2002 Mac Breedlove [Halloween Night: Garage Portraits] Pigmented ink print, archival Various sizes PDNB Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery "Me, Tarzan, you Cameraman." |
| 8. |  | Michael O'Brien 1998-2002 Halloween and Nixon [Halloween Night: Garage Portraits] Pigmented ink print, archival Various sizes PDNB Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery Trick-or-treater with Nixon Mask |
| 9. |  | Michael O'Brien 1998-2002 Tara Sharma [Halloween Night: Garage Portraits] Pigmented ink print, archival Various sizes PDNB Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery "I was dressed as a fairy," says Tara, who will enter high school next year, and who already takes 10-grade math. "I put my own costume together: that was my Cleopatra dress, from a school project, and I added the fairy wings and halo to make it special. I was wondering when the photo session was going to be over, because I wanted to get out and get more candy. Now that I'm older, Halloween is more about giving candy out to the kids, and watching their faces. It's kind of sad; it's more like reality now. They're not monsters running around, they're just humans in costumes. It's funny how fast you lose your imagination." |
| 10. |  | Michael O'Brien 1998-2002 Sebastian Garcia [Halloween Night: Garage Portraits] Pigmented ink print, archival Various sizes PDNB Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery "I was 13 years old that Halloween and Mr. Spock was my favorite "Star Trek" character," says Sebastian Garcia, now 18. "The costume was completely home-made by my mother. The shirt was made of the same fabric that is normally used to make drapes. The badge is just a cutout piece of gold fabric and the circular design on the badge is hand drawn with black fabric paint. The pants are just a pair of black dress paints. The ears are plastic vampire ears that hold on to my own ears with small pieces of chord. The strangest thing that I did for this costume was my eye make-up, I actually shaved off my eyebrows so I could draw on the slanted eyebrows and make them look convincing. (Don't worry: they grew back a week later). "At that time, I made the solid decision that I wanted to be an actor, so every Halloween I tried out and still do try out a different pre-existing character, I study the way they move, talk and act around other people until I can act like that character without making fun of him or her unless it is already a comedic character. I have attended acting classes and majored in theatre arts throughout high school. I have also won two awards at a local community theatre and I have appeared as an extra on a television series. I am now preparing to search for an agent and real acting jobs." |
| 11. |  | Michael O'Brien 1998-2002 Zoe Johnson [Halloween Night: Garage Portraits] Pigmented ink print, archival Various sizes PDNB Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery "This was my first Halloween in Texas!" says Zoe Johnson, now 7 and in the second grade at Matthews Elementary School. "My Mom made my costume and I was wearing my Mom's hat. It was big but it had sparkly diamonds on it. When I watched the musical Wicked I got the idea that I wanted to be Elphaba. My face was green!" |