The Fringes
Only 25 copies to be printed. Selected as one of 30 books for The Blue Library exhibition in New Orleans, LA and the Indie Photobook Library. Politics is New Hampshire. Traditionally, it is the first state in the nation to hold the presidential primary every four years. Months before major news outlets swarm to quaint New England towns for the state’s busiest week in politics, a large field of candidates begin testing their campaign tactics on every day New Hampshire residents. Residents who are the jurors in the trial of grassroots, boots-on-the-ground politicking. Politicians take to the state as a dress rehearsal with campaign staff, scripts, and American flags as stage-props. As campaigns drop from the race to the White House, more security is added, buffering remaining candidates from the everyday voters. This is a look at the year leading up to the voting on November 6, 2012, just outside the mainstream spotlight and on the fringes of the stage that is democracy in America by way of New Hampshire.
Published Wednesday, December 03, 2014 by John Tully
42 pages