The Little People Halloween Party – 10.31.16
Andy Shaw was one of the first people I met in NYC. I was standing in line outside of some nightclub and he came up and handed me some flyer for the Shaw Promotion mailing list. Andy was one of the biggest promoters in NYC nightlife for a long, long time. 10 years later Andy and his wife JD (who I also knew from nightlife) have a kid and realized that they could take their nightlife and promotional skills and transition them into a market they didn’t even know existed: parties for kids and their parents.
Barely a month The Little People Party was born and every week more and more kids and their parents are showing up every Monday at an indoor soccer field in Williamsburg. They hire a DJ and a musician and have a photo booth and a liquor sponsor and all the things you would have at a night club but the difference is it’s marketed to tiny children and their parents.
Andy reached out to me because he thought it would be kinda perfect if he had an actual nightlife photographer show up to shoot it. “You have probably photographed most of their parents anyway…” I actually thought it was a great idea since I love shooting things people don’t expect me to shoot and besides how could I pass up a halloween party with babies dressed as pumpkins and stuff?
Now I realize it’s kinda weird seeing photos of babies on a site where you can see naked people and fights and drinking and madness, but Andy has a point. This is Brooklyn and most of the parents are in their 20s and 30s and probably have been on my site at some point themselves. So I thought it would be okay to post about. Besides how fucking cute are these kids?
If you are a NYC mom or dad make sure you check out The Little People Party on Facebook because they are announcing more events all the time and are about to launch an all day weekend event which seems like it could be pretty amazing if you have a micro human of your own.
