The last post from my Tea Party series for Stern was recently featured in the LUCEO ‘From the Archive’ feature which highlights images in our archive and reminds our clients of the little search bar at the top of our website, so please forgive the regurgitation of my personal account for anyone who checked out that post.  For this shoot, they sent me out to the desert in Nevada to document a Tea Party movement rally.  This was one of the last in a string of six assignments that got me all-to-well acquainted with the radical political party. Strange as it may seem, I don’t disagree with much of what the party ’says’ that it is about like smaller government and less taxes.  However, as is often the case, what they claim to be about seems quite adverse to their words and actions when surrounded by each other.  But I wont’ get into that. As I left Vegas in the early morning light, speeding out into the desert, I expected to find a small gathering but I was mistaken.  By the time I arrived an hour early for the event, miles of traffic had been created leading up to the sandy highway turnoff.  As my patience with traffic is thin, I opted to park on the side of the road and walk the last few miles.  My main objective for the assignment was to photograph Sarah Palin who would speak briefly to the crowd, but it was the crowd that drew my attention and those people who I felt told the story.  So I made the image of Palin when the time came, but I spent the rest of my time studying the characters in the crowd and their interaction with the desert environment.  Here’s a few images from the day, and you can see the rest of the series here, here, and here.

The last post from my Tea Party series for Stern was recently featured in the LUCEO 'From the Archive' feature which highlights images in our archive and reminds our clients of the little search bar at the top of our website, so please forgive the regurgitation of my personal account for anyone who checked ...