Photographing America’s Polarizing Political Process | TIME

Von Niederhäusern started photographing politics in America in Amarillo, Texas, last year. “That was the first time I was in contact with politics,” says the New York-based photographer, who began his career in his native Switzerland, but was always fascinated by U.S. democratic system. “I sensed a huge polarization going on from the outside but I didn’t understand till I came to Amarillo and I saw that there is a big gap between Republicans and Democrats and people don’t talk to each other.”