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It’s that time again: we all have to pick a new President. Our current President is soon to be relegated to the bottom of the constitutional toy box worn out and missing a few pieces. Soon we’ll have a shiny new one, lots of new promises, a little hope and if we’re lucky more stimulus checks. The spotlight is once again focused on the greatest show our country has to offer: Politics. The people that run our country are rock stars. They may not always play the tune we’d always like they elevated to the highest stature of our democratic society.  
 
As a photographer in Washington, D.C. my work and life revolves around politics. On any given day I can be on Capitol Hill at the White House or looking for a campaign rally in a place that I didn’t know existed prior to getting an email with the assignment details. Everything is pre-planned. What my camera is pointed at is designed to look a certain way and send a certain message. Sometimes there are exceptions, the odd song and dance or something that strays from the plan. Those moments are what I hope for. It’s something different, something odd and usually funny.

Kristoffer Tripplaar is a native of the Washington, D.C. area and a graduate of the Corcoran College of Art & Design. His experience is drawn from a lifetime surrounded by beltway politics as well as having worked in the White House Photo Office and as a photography consultant for the World Bank Group. With a body of work that spans everything from coverage of the White House and Capitol Hill to excessive and odd Americana he attempts to bring a sense of wit and humor to his work. He is represented by Sipa Press and his clients include The World Bank Group, Polaris Images, The Washington Post Company and the European Press Photo Agency.