Good luck America. So many hardworking people making sure that your vote gets counted properly. We have a very open style of voting here in Australia. It’s compulsory and made as simple as possible for all. Anyone can be involved in the backend that you show here and I feel total confidence in the outcomes. Hopefully America will regain its trust in the hard work done by so many in the background. A cool bunch of photographs. Thanks so much.
You know I love your style and I love these photos out of context of their import, but I don't know if dressing what should be felt as a safe and open bureaucratic procedure like a horror film is really the best editorial choice. I feel like these photos support the sense of clandestine, closed-door, opaque back-room dealing Americans are increasingly beginning to suspect ballot counting to be and that's a disservice to their relatively straightforward, procedural, supervised, and transparent accounting.
That's a good point. I also love Dina's photography and writing. The series does convey the mystery of the process to many voters. However, since the objective was to convey transparency, an alternative would have been to shine a lot of diffuse light on the subject without any dark corners. The photos are appealing but give the impression of a vast underground operation - they remind me of the bowels of Fritz Lang's Metropolis. 🍷
Metropolis and Brazil were both an inspiration! But the story was actually assigned before all the voting fraud allegations, so the objective wasn't about transparency at the time, but to make a colorful photo essay of the subject.
Good luck America. So many hardworking people making sure that your vote gets counted properly. We have a very open style of voting here in Australia. It’s compulsory and made as simple as possible for all. Anyone can be involved in the backend that you show here and I feel total confidence in the outcomes. Hopefully America will regain its trust in the hard work done by so many in the background. A cool bunch of photographs. Thanks so much.
You know I love your style and I love these photos out of context of their import, but I don't know if dressing what should be felt as a safe and open bureaucratic procedure like a horror film is really the best editorial choice. I feel like these photos support the sense of clandestine, closed-door, opaque back-room dealing Americans are increasingly beginning to suspect ballot counting to be and that's a disservice to their relatively straightforward, procedural, supervised, and transparent accounting.
That's a good point. I also love Dina's photography and writing. The series does convey the mystery of the process to many voters. However, since the objective was to convey transparency, an alternative would have been to shine a lot of diffuse light on the subject without any dark corners. The photos are appealing but give the impression of a vast underground operation - they remind me of the bowels of Fritz Lang's Metropolis. 🍷
Metropolis and Brazil were both an inspiration! But the story was actually assigned before all the voting fraud allegations, so the objective wasn't about transparency at the time, but to make a colorful photo essay of the subject.
Got it! Amazing how much the context has changed in just over 4 years. 🍷
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I love your photography, Dina!