2 days with McCain

I followed McCain for two days throughout PA, one of the most important states in the election. Obama has an 8 point lead in the state, and will have a lot of trouble winning the election without winning PA. The amount of image control the campaign is exercising makes these shoots very hard. They tell you where to stand and when to shoot, so it is hard to be creative. This is all a tool of image control, so only the images they want the public to see are created (in front of flags, with the working people.) It is especially hard to get something different, I really like the wink shot and the handshake below. It is also hard to not reference Christopher Morris' work on political campaigns, who photographed this type of control in a subjective and conceptual way.