The Month Before TrumpHARVEY BENGE In the month before the 2016 presidential election New Zealand photographer Harvey Benge spent time in San Francisco and New York making the images in this book. In many ways these 59 photographs represent a time capsule places, people and scraps of visual information that is an affectionate and sometimes critical look at this mash up of a society that in October 2016 was at an existential watershed. This work does not pretend to be an

The images

it is simply Benge’s subjective view

Lens Culture and The British Journal of Photography

The Saturday Telegraph magazine

the different dreams and needs that the brother and sister sought to fulfill

and of the uniquely magical setting in which this annual pageant unfolds

I learnt a little bit more about what it means to be English

the Women’s Peace Camp on Greenham Common or the Brixton riots

Louis has twice been a finalist in the National Portrait Gallery portraiture award and his work is held in their permanent collection

Taken over a period of four years

Quarterbound hardback

with RICARDO MARTINEZ PAZ