In November 2020, Vanity Fair commissioned photographers across key battleground states to document Election Day. Assigned to Pennsylvania, I began before sunrise in Pittsburgh, photographing voters as polls opened and capturing the atmosphere of a historic election.
After covering polling locations throughout the morning, I traveled across the state toward Philadelphia, stopping along the way to document scenes that reflected the political and social landscape of the day. By evening, I was photographing polling places across Philadelphia as voters cast their final ballots before the polls closed.
VF requested first-person accounts about what we saw, heard, and sensed on Election Day, which you will see reflected in some of the following captions, and in the published piece.
