Matt McClain photographs the county fair in Missouri – The Washington Post

Washington Post staff photographer Matt McClain often finds himself photographing some of the biggest players in politics. Earlier this year, he was in Trump Tower in New York making portraits of President Trump, and he photographed the high-profile James B. Comey testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. But a recent assignment to a rural county fair in the Midwest was something of a homecoming for McClain. He grew up in a log house on a gravel road near a state forest about an hour south of Indianapolis. McClain jumped on a flight at Reagan National Airport just outside Washington to St. Louis, then drove three hours to Kahoka, Mo., to spend four days at the Clark County Fair — about as rural and middle America as one can get.