{"id":674231,"date":"2026-05-30T14:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/674231\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T14:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:15:11","slug":"a-new-pride-photo-pop-up-wants-to-put-you-inside-the-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/674231\/","title":{"rendered":"A new Pride photo pop up wants to put you inside the art"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Pride-inspired professional photo studio is coming to Bow Market<\/a> this June and you could be the art. <\/p>\n

Starting June 5, Saturated, a new pop-up by Somerville-based photographer Amanda Macchia<\/a>, will give the commemorative photo strip a Technicolor makeover. Macchia describes the immersive experience as \u201ca mix between visiting an art gallery and going to a photo booth.\u201d<\/p>\n

She designed the 9-by-18-foot space located on Bow Market\u2019s second floor (between Amantolli and Nook cocktail bar) to feel like a professional photo or film studio set. A custom, color-drenched mural by her friend and artist Lindsey Parker will serve as a vibrant backdrop for photos alongside a fiber arts piece by Somerville artist Quintin Marcus, also known as Yarnqueer on social media. The effect, Macchia hopes, will be like \u201cwalking into a rainbow.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"PhotographerPhotographer Amanda Macchia Photography’s new photo studio pop-up Saturated (right mockup) is an immersive art experience in Somerville’s Bow Market in celebration of Pride.Amanda Macchia Photography<\/p>\n

Once inside, attendees can participate in what Macchia called an \u201ceditorialized photo booth experience.\u201d While Pride is the pop-up\u2019s theme, the portrait studio, which is open Friday through Sunday, is available for everyone to explore and book \u2014 from families to couples to individuals to pets.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to invite everybody into our love letter to Pride,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

All attendees have to do is show up with their pizzazz and a photographer will provide music and guidance for posing for each shot.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are going to step into the studio and have a mini photo session with a photographer that is really skilled at creative directing and bringing out joy,\u201d she described. <\/p>\n

Each pre-booked, 30-minute session at Saturated will cost $50. In addition to the shoot experience, the package includes five professionally edited digital images and a Polaroid to take home. Walk-ins will be available ($65 for 15 minutes) and the curious are welcome to enter for $15 and explore the exhibit as a spectator, taking their own selfies along the way. Macchia hopes the cost will help make a professional photoshoot experience accessible to a wider audience. On Monday through Thursday, the location will be available for private rentals for photographers and content creators.<\/p>\n

\"AmandaAmanda Macchia took photos for Dearly Studio’s Queerly Beloved event, a series of micro-wedding ceremonies held at the Sinclair in Cambridge.Amanda Macchia<\/p>\n

To celebrate Pride, Saturated is partnering with Bow Market\u2019s micro-wedding chapel Dearly Studio<\/a> to give away free ceremonies and photo sessions to three LGBTQIA2S+ couples on June 18. (Interested couples can enter online through Dearly\u2019s website, dearly.studio<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe space isn\u2019t really about making money at all,\u201d said Macchia, who also owns an eponymous wedding and family photography business, Amanda Macchia Photography<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s about creating a really beautiful space where people can come and get their pictures taken and have a joyful moment, so it really made sense to align a giveaway with that.\u201d <\/p>\n

Saturated, Fridays-Saturdays, noon-7 p.m., Sunday, noon-5 p.m., Runs through June. Bow Market, Bow Market Way, Somerville. More information and to pre-book at studiobyamp.com\/saturated<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Annie Sarlin can be reached at annie.sarlin@globe.com<\/a>. Follow her on Instagram @anniesarlinjournalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n