--- description: As the Romney campaign charged towards many victories on Super Tuesday, photographer Lauren Fleishman documented the candidate from Ohio to Massachusetts. title: Super Tuesday Mitt Romney Photographs by Lauren Fleishman image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c2fe2fd7c70f7e6/69879d1df887dc38a5e8bd82/img_39231.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [LightBox](/tag/time-section-lightbox/) ## LightBox Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # On the Trail with Romney: Photographs by Lauren Fleishman  by [Lily Rothman](/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Mar 7, 2012 5:59 AM CUT  March 2, 2012\. Mitt Romney gives his wife Ann a kiss after her speech at the Cole Center at Cleveland State University in Ohio. March 2, 2012\. Mitt Romney gives his wife Ann a kiss after her speech at the Cole Center at Cleveland State University in Ohio.Lauren Fleishman for TIME  by [Lily Rothman](/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Mar 7, 2012 5:59 AM CUT In the days leading up to yesterday’s Super Tuesday primary contests, Republican candidate Mitt Romney set his sights on Ohio, a swing state that has played a crucial role in recent presidential elections. Photographer [Lauren Fleishman](http://www.laurenfleishman.com/ "undefined"), who was photographing the candidate for TIME, did the same. “I have been here before. It’s what I remember,” she says of the state, where she previously spent time working on an extensive personal project about the Amish. “The landscape still looks the same.” And, although the photographer was focused on a different kind of Ohioan this time around, she found that, while Romney was the star of the scene, the people of Ohio were still the highlight of the trip. Photo opportunities with Romney were highly controlled—something that Justin Maxon, who was also photographing Super Tuesday for TIME, found to be equally true for [Rick Santorum’s campaign](http://lightbox.time.com/2012/03/06/santorum-justin-maxon "undefined"). It was especially so after when Fleishman left her car to join the official campaign bus. The increase in access, the backstage passes, was paid for in limitations on where and when the photographer could stand and shoot. Taking those photographs was an artistic and technical challenge—how to make a good picture when you can’t get close enough?—but Fleishman found that the people who turned up to see the candidate were the real source of interest. For example, at a factory in Canton, Ohio, on Monday, Fleishman turned her camera to the workers. “They were in their work outfits, which is just jumpers and construction hats, because they went to work on a Monday and a lot of them, I was told, didn’t even know that there was going to be something going on,” she says. “For me the most exciting thing is getting to see the people from each town come out, and to speak to them and to see their faces.” From Dayton to Youngstown, each town had its own character—and each town had its own characters. Each campaign event presented the photographer with one group of people that made up one piece of Ohio. As the campaign bus traveled through the state, the photographer was able to put those pieces together, many portraits of people becoming a portrait of a state. And yesterday, anticipating leaving the state to join Romney as he waited for the day’s results in Boston, Fleishman hoped that her photographs from Ohio would show the state itself as a part of a larger puzzle. “You get these little glimpses into different towns,” she says. “I want the photographs in some way to show a portrait of America through the candidate.” [_Lauren Fleishman_](http://www.laurenfleishman.com/ "undefined") _is an award-winning photographer based in New York City. See more of her work_ [_here_](http://www.laurenfleishman.com/ "undefined") _and her last post on LightBox_ [_here_](http://lightbox.time.com/2012/02/14/valentines-day-special-love-ever-after/#1 "undefined")_._  March 2, 2012\. Mitt Romney gives his wife Ann a kiss after her speech at the Cole Center at Cleveland State University in Ohio. Lauren Fleishman for TIME  March 3, 2012\. Campaign volunteer Ben Mulholland sells buttons outside a rally for Mitt Romney in Dayton, Ohio. Lauren Fleishman for TIME  March 4, 2012\. Intern Jason Rodriguez puts a yard sign in front of Mitt Romney's Columbus, Ohio, headquarters. Lauren Fleishman for TIME  March 4, 2012\. Billboard on I-71 highway in Ohio. Lauren Fleishman for TIME  March 5, 2012\. President Obama supporters greet the Mitt Romney campaign bus outside of a town hall meeting in Youngstown, Ohio. Lauren Fleishman for TIME  March 5, 2012\. Mitt Romney hosts a town hall meeting at the Taylor Winfield factory in Youngstown, Ohio. Lauren Fleishman for TIME  March 5, 2012\. Ann Romney listens to her husband speech during a rally at Gregory Industries in Canton, Ohio. Lauren Fleishman for TIME  March 5, 2012\. Mitt Romney speaks at Gregory Industries in Canton, Ohio. Lauren Fleishman for TIME  March 5, 2012\. Gregory Industries factory workers at a Mitt Romney rally in Canton, Ohio. Lauren Fleishman for TIME  March 5, 2012\. Mitt Romney shakes hands with supporters at Gregory Industries in Canton, Ohio. Lauren Fleishman for TIME  March 3, 2012\. College seniors Kyle Graves and Alex Rigos at a Romney event in in Dayton, Ohio. Lauren Fleishman for TIME  March 5, 2012\. Mitt Romney supporters in Youngstown, Ohio. Lauren Fleishman for TIME  March 5, 2012\. The view from the Mitt Romney campaign bus on the way to Zanesville, Ohio. Lauren Fleishman for TIME  March 5, 2012\. Supporters at a Mitt Romney rally at Bryan Place in Zanesville, Ohio. Lauren Fleishman for TIME  March 5, 2012\. Mitt Romney speaks to supporters at Bryan Place in Zanesville, Ohio. Lauren Fleishman for TIME  March 5, 2012\. A Mitt Romney supporter at a rally at Bryan Place in Zanesville, Ohio. Lauren Fleishman for TIME  March 6, 2012\. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his wife Ann talk to reporters on his campaign plane in Columbus, Ohio, before taking off for Boston. Lauren Fleishman for TIME  March 6, 2012\. Mitt Romney walks off his campaign plane with his wife Ann at Bedford Hanscom Field in Bedford, Mass., as he traveled to Boston to hold a Super Tuesday party. Lauren Fleishman for TIME  March 6, 2012\. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks at a baseball field after voting in the Massachusetts primary in Belmont, Mass. Lauren Fleishman for TIME  March 6, 2012\. Mitt Romney supporters at a Super Tuesday event at the Westin Copley Place in Boston. Lauren Fleishman for TIME  March 6, 2012\. Mitt Romney supporters at a Super Tuesday event at the Westin Copley Place in Boston. Lauren Fleishman for TIME  March 6, 2012\. Mitt Romney speaks during a Super Tuesday event at the Westin Copley Place in Boston. Lauren Fleishman for TIME  March 6, 2012\. Overview of the crowd during a Super Tuesday event for Mitt Romney at the Westin Copley Place in Boston. 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