Projects and documentary work
By Bridger Swinimer
Nervous system
Confusion, fear, sadness, anger.
Exploration of mental decay.
Mostly ramblings from my journal
Freak fest - Rural South Carolina 2025
Documenting 4 days of metal and raves. a drag show, wrestling and camping. With founder and promoter Ethan Lewis
Encounters - 2025
A series of brief encounters with people that I meet.
This is my way of learning from strangers, of seeing myself reflected in the faces that I meet.
Coney Island mermaid parade june 2025
Since 1983, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers and visitors from across the country — and around the world — have headed to the Coney Island shore for Coney Island USA’s annual Mermaid parade
Celebrating Holi - North Carolina - 2025
The throwing of colors is seen as a way to celebrate the joy and vibrancy of life and to spread love and happiness among family and friends.
Pillow Fight NYC Washington Square Park (April 2023)
Every spring, New Yorkers ditch the usual pace of life and embrace their inner child in one of the city’s most delightfully chaotic traditions
Art and Revelry: Exploring the Unconventional Events of Doomvana. Detroit mi (2023-2024)
Live Witch Trials, Sideshow acts, body suspension, burlesque, Live Music and So. Much. BLOOD!
NYC Village Halloween parade 2024
Crowds pack the streets surrounded by amazing costumes and towering puppets
I’m just a bystander
I remain invisible, blending into the background. I watch the world move around me, I capture fragments of lives that I may never truly know.
No-Ring Deathmatch Wrestling
An extreme, brutal form of performance art involving light tubes, barbed wire and glass.
Southeast punk and hardcore 2023-2024
A spirit of rebellion and nonconformity, rejecting societal expectations and authority.