This is What Democracy Looks Like

The 2020 presidential election felt consequential to a degree unmatched by any other in my lifetime. As the election grew near, I set out to document the determination of my Brooklyn neighbors to exercise their right to vote. These images begin on the first day of early voting at the Brooklyn Museum, continue at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza on the day the election was finally called for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and at a January demonstration outside the Bay Ridge office of Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis, who voted to overturn election results in Arizona and Pennsylvania.

Jean Ross

Jean Ross is a California-born photographer currently based in Brooklyn. She photographs places and the people who live in them. Jean has studied at the International Center of Photography and her work has been featured in solo shows at Viewpoint Gallery in Sacramento, California, and Gallery 1855 in Davis, California, and in group shows at the International Center of Photography and other galleries in Oaxaca, New York, and Los Angeles.