From the Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial this afternoon. Polaroids from the same event below. More to follow tomorrow.
Started photographing around the mall today. Estimates are putting the crowd that attended the pre-inauguration celebration at about a half-million people –roughly twice the number of people in attendance for Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. The event featured Obama speaking on the Lincoln Memorial following a handful of superstar acts. Garth Brooks to Mary J. Blige and everything in between. For an event that is completely saturated by press, it seems to me like the more interesting facets of the story are the people who have come from around the country –and the globe –to be a part of this event.