Favorite

Readers' Choice Winner

VICE
Post-Election Road-Trip Issue, June 2017

Alen Zukanovic, Designer
Naomi Harris, Photographer

"Naomi Harris has always been attracted to the American road trip. For our June Issue, she spent the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency living out of her car and traveling across the country. Her motivation was figuring out 'how the polls and the media got it all wrong.' She traveled across 19 states, speaking to Americans (and taking their portraits) to find out how and why they voted. The cover features Richard, a Vietnam vet she met along the way (he voted for Clinton). We think the story and cover is playful and surprising yet timely and provocative."

I really like this cover, like the election, it tells a different story than you might expect. When hearing about  a Vietnam vet living in rural America, you would probably assume he was a trump supporter right? Nope, this picture really sells that feeling to you. My only problems with this photo is that it definatly seems staged. Wether it is or not it still gave that feeling to me. I don't really have the best idea where this is supposed to be either. They could have taken the photo in a better spot to really give the image of rural America.