Pennsylvania’s Eastern State Penitentiary Festival

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

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.