A captured pirate at the Bastille Day Street Festival at Eastern State Penitentiary.
The guillotine waiting for Marie Antoinette.
A peasant yells up at Marie Antoinette.
A child in the crowd waves her French flag as a show of support.
Marie Antoinette eats a butterscotch krimpet after declaring, “Let them eat Tastykakes!”.
Nearly 2,000 Tastykakes are hurled from the walls of the Bastille to the people below.
Yep, that’s a man dressed as a woman.
Performers during the Bastille Day Street Festival in Fairmount.
Christian Carollo is a freelance photographer based in the suburbs of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He has lived near Philadelphia his entire life and has a great appreciation for the culture, beauty, passion, and history the city has to offer.






