Opinion | 2024 in Photos: America’s Election Year – The New York Times

For six months this year, Taryn Simon followed the political vapor trail to document the people, spaces and objects central to the 2024 presidential campaigns. Ms. Simon, who works at a distance from the daily news cycle, examines our distracted national gaze and desires, letting us pause and look at what we all experienced. “You can’t see anything reflected in boiling water. But when it’s still, water is a mirror,” she said. “It’s still in the anticipation, and it’s still in the aftermath. But we’re told to watch when it’s boiling.”