Dia de Muertos 2025: Outdoor Photo Exhibit: Noche de Ánimas
NOW – 11/2
Join Flatiron & NoMad to celebrate Día de Muertos! From October 10th – November 2nd, view an outdoor photo exhibit, Noche de Ánimas presented in partnership with Festival Tragaluz, Funkelin, and Photoville on the Flatiron South Plaza showcasing the rituals of Michoacán’s Pátzcuaro riverbank, during Día de Muertos season.
About Festival Tragaluz
The Festival Tragaluz was founded in 2023 with the aim of developing photography, image, and multidisciplinary projects, as well as creating a production platform and a space for dialogue and expression around the visual arts. With Morelia and Michoacán as its setting, it offers tools so that photography and image, through aesthetic processes, become a way of communicating ideas and emotions, achieving a real and profound connection with others, with our reality, and with ourselves.
The Festival began its activities with a portrait and dance workshop, “Ritual and Performing Arts”; a food photography workshop; and a documentary photography workshop, “Day of the Dead.”
In September 2024, the first edition of the Tragaluz Festival took place, featuring five exhibitions, three workshops, and three discussions led by 12 national artists; a multidisciplinary event, “La Caja de Espejos,” with photographs by Jesús Cornejo and live music performed by Todd Clouser and other Mexican musicians; and a tribute to Elsa Escamilla, Mexican documentary photographer. The second Day of the Dead workshop was held in October in the lake area of the state of Michoacán.
In its second edition, which took place from September 19th to 21st, the Festival Tragaluz premiered five exhibitions in Morelia and Pátzcuaro; a portrait masterclass, a photowalk, four discussions, and a posthumous tribute. Ten national and international artists participated, with over 2,500 attendees.
About Funkelin
Based in México, Funkelin is a PR and events agency that believes in breaking paradigms, building connections and creating experiences that inspire. We are driven by the conviction that every story has the power to transform perception and bringing people together. At Funkelin, we combine strategy, creativity and cultural insight to design experiences that resonate. Our team works across industries from corporate, cultural and tourism projects to lifestyle and community initiatives, helping brand and institutions tell stories that matter. Every project we take on is guided by one purpose: to connect emotions, ideas and cultures through authentic storytelling. This vision comes to life in our collaboration with Flatiron-NoMad and Festival Tragaluz, through the photographic exhibition “Noche de Ánimas” Bringing a piece of Mexico to New York, inviting locals and visitors to experience the meaning of Día de Muertos, a tradition recognized by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, a celebration that honors life, memory and the beauty of remembrance. At Funkelin, we don’t just create events, we craft moments that tell stories, strengthen identities, and leave a lasting emotional mark.
About Noche de Ánimas
The Day of the Dead in Mexico is a process, not a single day or night. There are times to set out fruits, drinks, and dishes. Childhoods, accidental absences, ancestors, and finally, close relatives are honored.
Everything has its moment. For a few days, each community multiplies its inhabitants because it is made up of all the people living and dead, united by the mutual longing that inhabits the streets, homes, and cemeteries in a thousand ways.
The Festival Tragaluz presents a selection of 12 photographs by a group of photographers who, in 2023, toured the Pátzcuaro riverbank in Michoacán as part of a community immersion workshop, during the celebrations of life and death that take place in towns such as Santa Fe de la Laguna, Tzintzuntzan, Tarerio, Ihuatzio, Cocuchucho, and Tzurumútaro.
The language of photography is used here to portray a mosaic of details, portraits, and scenes that aptly represent the actions and feelings of people who remember. The colors, shapes, metaphors, colorful montages, and profusion of flowers—unmistakable signs of a sun that shines somewhere other than the sky—reveal a creativity fueled by memory, by the desire to remember those who have gone before them.
Long live life! Long live the dreams that never awoke.
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Photo Credit: Keith E. Morrison
