Pride in Print: A Colour Challenge for Mardi Gras 🌈
Sydney Mardi Gras is coming up! And we're feeling inspired. Are you?
Mardi Gras is a moment people mark in different ways🌈 For some, it's loud and joyful. For others, it's quieter, reflective, or shared in smaller circles.
It's about community, visibility, celebration, history... and a creative outlet.
Seeing Mardi Gras through colour 🎨
If you walk through Mardi Gras season with your eyes open, colour is everywhere.
Not just rainbows - but fabrics, makeup, signs, outfits, streetlights, flowers, face paint, flags, shadows, and details you might otherwise scroll past.
This year, instead of trying to capture everything, try focusing on one colour.
The Pride Colour Challenge
Pick a colour - any colour - and spend the day (or week) capturing it wherever you see it.
It could be:
- a bold pink jacket
- a deep blue sign
- a flash of green makeup
- a sliver of yellow in a feather boa
You can do it solo, or turn it into something social:
- everyone in your group chooses a different colour
- swap prints at the end
- see how differently you experienced the same moment ✨
There's no right palette. Just what stood out to you.
Why print it? 📸
Your camera roll will fill up fast. Printing helps you slow down and choose.
A set of instax™ prints becomes:
- a personal record of how you experienced Mardi Gras
- a shared activity with friends or chosen family
- something tactile you can keep, gift, or revisit later
Not everything needs to be posted. Some memories are just for you - and printing can make that feel more real.
Pride is more than one night💜
Mardi Gras might be a peak moment, but Pride isn't confined to a parade or a weekend.
Often, the photos you come back to later aren't the biggest ones - they're the details:
- the colour you kept noticing
- the people you shared it with
- the feeling you didn't want to forget
Printed photos don't just show what happened. They help you remember how it felt.
However you experience Mardi Gras - in a crowd, at a house gathering, at a local event, or from home - it deserves to be remembered in a way that lasts.
Capture colour. Capture feeling. Keep Pride your way 🌈
