“Some of the rhetoric and political beliefs I encountered have been completely terrifying, however after I had one-on-one conversations with individuals, they could not have been extra nice. This is the good tragedy of American politics,” says photographer Jamie Lee Taete referring to the ultimate days of the US elections. “That everyone seems to be principally in the identical boat and is satisfied to hate one another by highly effective people who find themselves actually altering everybody’s lives Even Kari Lake, who spent a lot of the speech I attended pointing on the media space and speaking about how evil all of us are, gave me and a few different photographers what appeared like a reasonably real thanks when it was. leaving the occasion.
Photography: Jamie Lee Taete