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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie attends the ceremony for the opening of the 206 bypass in Hillsborough, NJ on Oct. 28, 2013.Mark Peterson—REDUX  by [Paul Moakley](/author/paul-moakley/)  ## Paul Moakley Jan 18, 2016 9:00 AM CUT _Since its inception, photography has been inseparable from the world of politics, where image is crucial. For most presidential candidates, controlling that image has become essential to their message. In a series called_ **Seeing Politics**_, TIME LightBox examines political photography throughout the 2016 campaign in profiles, features and analytical pieces._ In 2016, it is almost unthinkable to imagine a photographer could reinvent their career by making black-and-white documentary pictures, but that’s precisely what Mark Peterson did with a project he calls _Political Theatre_. At a time when we continually hear American voters say they support candidates because they’re looking for an “outsider” and they’re less interested in “professional career politicians,” perhaps political photography also needs an outlier to get our attention? Peterson began pursuing a newer cinematic style after being inspired by the [Orson Welles ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQYazeJA-Oo "undefined")classic [_Citizen Kane_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNaDrnxp3L0 "undefined"). Using the same tools most nonprofessionals use — Instagram, a few cheap phone apps and a handheld flash — Peterson spent the past few years on the road documenting the often fraught and bifurcated American political landscape. A photographer since 1980, Peterson came to the profession late at age 29 after a series of menial jobs doing everything from working in a warehouse to bartending. He began his journalism career at a local newspaper where he was actually delivering papers. “And within a month,” he says, “everybody quit, and I was the editor. It wasn’t a very pretty sight, but I got a taste of journalism.” Eventually he began working for an alt-weekly in Minneapolis called _City Pages_, where he began to take pictures. Later as a stringer for UPI he shot a photo of then-presidential hopefuls Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro that ended up on the cover of the New York _Times_, and from there he kept going. “I think then — and even now, I’m politically naive and I don’t really know politics,” he tells TIME. “Walter Mondale in 1984 was pretty much my first time seeing the mechanism of politics and the whole carnival of everybody getting on a bus and following the candidate.” A decade later, in 1991, when David Duke ran for governor of Louisiana, he learned an important lesson. “You look at David Duke, who was a former clansman and an avowed racist, and he looked like a normal person,” he says. “He looked like Robert Redford looked in _The Candidate_, a perfect candidate. You could never, in a still picture, capture the anger and how racist he was. The only way to do that was to look into the audience and how riled up they were by his message.” Peterson’s signature approach to a photo shoot typically sidesteps the main event and takes you somewhere unexpected to tell a story. For example at an NRA rally in Alexandria, Va. (slide 15), instead of showing just the speakers, he captures Americans’ right to bear arms in the bathroom by shooting two men at a row of urinals with large rifles strapped to their backs. One of his more recent images, featured on last week’s cover of TIME magazine, shows a rear-view shot of Donald Trump as he swoons a massive crowd in Rochester, N.H. It’s a sea of captivated faces staring back at the camera. “The candidates are all very polished in how they look,” Peterson says. “They practice for days not to make a mistake. But when you look at their audience, it’s usually much more revealing.”  Photograph by Mark Peterson—Redux “The genesis of _Political Theatre_ started in September of 2013,” he says. “Obamacare was just about ready to be enacted, and Congress was going to try and stop it. There was even talk of shutting down the government over it, which they did.” He attended a Tea Party rally outside the steps of Congress, and that was the moment of inspiration for this work. “It was just a TV-orchestrated event,” Peterson says. “And I took these pictures and when I processed them, I was actually really unhappy. They didn’t capture any of that. I didn’t feel like they showed how fake the event really was, that it was just done for sound bites. One sound bite after another.” When photographing Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie, Peterson was fascinated with the politician’s mouth. “I went to an event, and all I wanted to do was just photograph his mouth because, really, that is him,” he says. “I’ve photographed him in the past and made pictures of him yelling at people in town halls but they didn’t really show the bare crux of what he is, or what his power is as a politician, which is his ability to just shout down anybody else’s opinion.” Trying to distill things down to their essence or symbolically is a technique Peterson often employs while thinking more conceptually on how to communicate what defines a politician and what they stand for at the moment. “I don’t want to be so locked in to an idea that I miss everything else,” he says. “I’m always trying to distill it, we’re making an editorial judgment every time we push the shutter or edit.” “I go _Blood Simple_ when I shoot,” says Peterson, referring to the 1984 Joel and Ethan Coen movie about a private detective. “I just keep shooting and shooting, and I’m sure I look like a crazy person. But I never feel comfortable that I have the shot.” Peterson publishes almost all his work through Instagram, where he says he creates a virtual “proof sheet” for a community of followers to comment and share his work. In the slurry of our carefully curated, self-promotional lives (and now too many ads), Peterson’s photographs manage to feel surprising and reveal a live stream of the political circus as he sees it. The flash freezes politicians in grotesque expressions distilling moments of cinematic horror and absurdity that his Instagram followers Like over and over again. “For politicians, the flash is like crack,” he says. “It makes things more kinetic. I think anybody that comes into a room and suddenly there are flashes going off, they’re going to be much more alive. I like that it gives more dimension and depth to the work.” The popularity of Peterson’s pictures may be explained by the delight we feel of seeing familiar figures through such a stylized lens but within the massive project more subtlety is revealed. Under his handheld flash, he shows candidates as human beings with their flaws and imperfections amplified by his careful lighting and framing. The texture and toning of his work is also essential to his style. “I’d shoot pictures with my DSLR, but then I’d put them into my cellphone, and I’d use every 99¢ app I have to just destroy them,” he says. “I’ve always adhered to some of the tenets of photojournalism, but it kind of changed for me. What are these rules? I’m not manipulating images, but maybe I’m manipulating tones and making it dramatic.” Using cheap apps to create something singular works against the popular notion that everybody is a photographer these days. “I’ve never been a very technical person,” he says. “I’ve never been good at Photoshop, and that’s why I started using the apps because I could just hit a button and it would be like, yeah, that’s how I want it to look. Instagram was a really nice way of starting to put the work out, and I think it is a real proof sheet of people’s work. The John Stuart Mill thought that you just throw it out there and let people start thinking about it.” Peterson’s decision to publish his photographs on Instagram allowed him to be noticed by editorial clients such as _New York_ magazine, Politico and MSNBC. “Running the pictures in so many places was directly related to Instagram,” he says. Of course, his photographs can, at times, be controversial with his followers and readers of the various magazines he works with. “I think people go both ways with the images,” he says. “Some people laugh at them, and some people think that they’re very mean. I have friends who are conservative, who say, ‘Well, what about the Democrats?’ I think my Hillary picture may be one of my most surgical pictures \[I’ve made\]. I think it captures her in a moment that you’re just not used to seeing her. You’re used to seeing her look very confident. Very — very self-aware at all times. I think there’s probably nobody that is more aware of the press than Hillary Clinton and the pitfalls that come with the press.” “I’m not criticizing anybody,” he says. “But the other pictures are the pictures the campaign wants you to take. Everything is designed for that one perfect shining light on that candidate and there’s enough of those pictures being taken.” **_Mark Peterson_** _is an award-winning American photographer represented by_ [_Redux Pictures_](http://www.reduxpictures.com "undefined") _in New York. He is a regular contributor to_ TIME_, MSNBC,_ New York _magazine and Politico. You can follow his Political Theatre project on Instagram_ [_@markpetersonpixs_](https://www.instagram.com/markpetersonpixs/ "undefined")_._ **_Paul Moakley_** _is the Deputy Director of Photography and Visual Enterprise at TIME. Follow him on Twitter_ [_@paulmoakley_](https://mobile.twitter.com/paulmoakley "undefined")_._ _Read more stories from TIME LightBox’s_ [**_Seeing Politics_**](http://time.com/tag/seeing-politics/ "undefined") _series._  New Jersey Governor Chris Christie attends the ceremony for the opening of the 206 bypass in Hillsborough, NJ on Oct. 28, 2013. Mark Peterson—REDUX  A supporter holds signs at the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll in National Harbor, Md. Mark Peterson—REDUX for TIME  Red State Gathering attendees watch the debate on Fox News at the Intercontinental Buckhead in Atlanta, Ga. Mark Peterson—REDUX  Rep Michelle Bachmann at the 5th anniversary of the Tea Party. Mark Peterson—REDUX  Sen. Hillary Clinton at the New York City labor day parade. Mark Peterson—REDUX  Iowa Ag Summit in Des Moines, Iowa on March 7, 2015. Mark Peterson—REDUX  Sen. Ted Cruz at the Tea Party Patriots 5th anniversary conference. Mark Peterson—REDUX  New Jersey Governor Chris Christie attends the ceremony for the opening of the 206 bypass in Hillsborough, NJ on Oct. 28, 2013. Mark Peterson—REDUX  Former Secretary of State and Nobel Peace prize winner Dr. Henry Kissinger in his office at Kissinger Associates on Park Ave. Mark Peterson—REDUX  CNN Democratic Presidential Primary Debate in Las Vegas, Oct. 13, 2015. Mark Peterson—REDUX  A journalist interviews a local sheriff at the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll in National Harbor, Md. Mark Peterson—REDUX for TIME  The press area at the RedState gathering in Atlanta, Ga. on Aug. 7, 2015. Mark Peterson—REDUX  Carly Fiorina being interviewed by Fox News at the RedState Gathering in Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 7, 2015. Mark Peterson—REDUX  Former Governor of Florida Jeb Bush speaks at the RedState Gathering in Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 8, 2015. Mark Peterson—REDUX  Second Amendment Activists gathered with handguns and rifles in Fort Hunt National Park outside Alexandria, Virginia on April 19, 2010. Mark Peterson—REDUX  U.S. Capitol Dome under repair reflected in a puddle, in Washington D.C., Sept. 30, 2015. Mark Peterson—REDUX  New Jersey Governor Chris Christie beginning a week-long bus tour on Oct. 30, 2013. Mark Peterson—REDUX  Sen Ted Cruz (R-Texas) at the Iowa Ag Summit, hosted by Bruce Rastetter, highlighting and promoting agriculture, in Des Moines, Iowa, March 7, 2015. Mark Peterson—REDUX  The National Rifle Association annual convention in Indianapolis, In. Mark Peterson—REDUX  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie holds his 118th Town Hall meeting with the citizens of the state of NJ. Mark Peterson—REDUX  Election night in Kentucky on Nov. 4, 2014\. McConnell was re-elected for a sixth term. Mark Peterson—REDUX  Iowa Freedom Summit, hosted by Citizens United and Congressman Steve King, in Des Moines, IA, Jan. 24, 2015. Mark Peterson—REDUX  Rick Santorum at the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll. Mark Peterson—REDUX for TIME  A rally in support of the New York Police Department at the Queens Borough Hall on Jan. 13, 2015. Mark Peterson—REDUX  Former First Lady and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signs copies of her book "Hard Choices" in East Hampton, NY on Aug. 16, 2014. Mark Peterson—REDUX  Four-year-old Violet Ogle with a assault rifle at the National Rifle Association's annual convention in Indianapolis, In. Mark Peterson—REDUX  A Rand Paul cutout at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Habor, Md. Mark Peterson—REDUX for TIME  Larry Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch at a “Reclaim America Now Coalition” gathering. 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