Divided: Scenes from Inauguration 2021

A Photo and Interview Series by Barry Goldstein

Paula Alvarez & Elliot Carter

Paula Alvarez & Elliot Carter Washington D.C. residents who live and work in the District. “Since 2001… people have gotten used to guards with machine guns outside the subway… we have rebuilt this entire city around the notion of foreign extremists coming here and...

Joel Selanikio

Long-time DC residents Joel Selanikio, his wife Miaochun, and son Kai live about one mile from the White House. “With the Capital riot,  people felt like these are folks who are trying… to overthrow the government… I think I’ll sleep OK tonight,  but at...

Haruyo Miyamoto

Correspondent covering the inauguration in Washington for Tokyo Broadcasting System News in Japan. “[Trump is] very popular among some Japanese people… Still today, there are some Japanese people who think that President-elect Biden wasn’t elected fair and...