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From the Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial this afternoon. Polaroids from the same event below. More to follow tomorrow.
And so inauguration begins for me, meeting Avi Gupta, photo editor for U.S. News & World Report, at the door of his Columbia Heights place. This is home-base for the next few days for both myself and fellow Luceo photographer David Walter Banks. Spent most of the night inside working out the boring, logistical ends of the actual inauguration as well as the figuring out where all the fun little slices of political strangeness are hiding out. We’ve come up with a little bit of a list in terms of things to photograph and hope to produce a something similar to the collaborative piece that appears on the Luceo site. Last night I stayed up talking with photographer Krisanne Johnson about this subject, whether or not shooting politics had any deeper photographic appeal given that these events are inherently overproduced and, frankly, difficult to manage if you’re not into being prodded by press handlers, other snippy photographers, and the twenty five layer cake of security that seems to be ever vigilant about keeping photographers on their toes. For all the drawbacks that come with the territory, there is still some appeal for me in looking at the culture surrounding these events and the machine that produces them. Politics or not, the more interesting story is hiding in these details and I’m excited about the next few days and the chance I have to continue that visual narrative.