MADD D.C. | Meaghan Sutton and Danica Thomas

Traveling to Washington, D.C. to document Inauguration Day weekend was a decision made out of an unrelenting desire to have a role to play in an increasingly uncertain time. We hoped to find sanity and purpose in observing and documenting the moment we struggled to make sense of.

In below freezing temperatures throughout Inauguration Day weekend, we covered supporters and resistors at the People’s March, Trump’s “Victory Rally” celebrations, and a public viewing of the swearing in ceremony that coincided with Dr. Martin Luther King Day. The weekend was loud and chaotic, with a palpable undercurrent of a promise of retribution as thousands of red hats swelled in the streets to dance and celebrate.

MADD D.C. is a collection of film photographs that capture those first moments of Trump’s authoritarian first year of his second term.

We flew to D.C. to look fascism in the face and we took its portrait.

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