Julie Platner counted on Jeff Hall as entree to the National Socialist Movement. She could not have counted on how the story would end.
via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/a-family-tragedy-in-a-neo-nazi-home/
It took about six months, Julie Platner said, to persuade anyone in the neo-Nazi movement to let her photograph the group. About 10 months into her self-assigned project, she interested The New York Times in the topic, having already developed numerous contacts with the National Socialist Movement.