What Are You Going to be for Halloween?

Our favorite Portland looks this week.

(Sam Gehrke)
(Sam Gehrke)

Left: "I'm planning on being Genji from Overwatch!" Center: "I think I'm just gonna go as a pirate." Right: "I'm gonna be a pig!"

(Sam Gehrke)

"I have a friend whose daughters are going as the Powerpuff Girls, so I'm just going as Mojo Jojo with them while they trick-or-treat."

(Sam Gehrke)

"Most likely Deku from My Hero Academia."

(Sam Gehrke)

"I'm not quite sure yet, but something involving SFX makeup that looks really gruesome and creepy."

(Sam Gehrke)

"An alien for sure! I have an alien suit, and I love aliens, so def an alien!"

Sam Gehrke

Sam Gehrke is a photographer born in Milwaukee, WI in 1990 and raised in Eugene, OR. He moved to Portland in 2016 to pursue photography, quitting his full time job and diving head first into an independent career. His work has since appeared in Vice Magazine, OPB, The Fader, Vortex Music Magazine and Premier Guitar Magazine.

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