In the Trump Era, How Photographers Search for the Right Distance

Government propaganda, hijacked amateur footage, normalized violence… The Trump administration has developed a striking visual strategy. How can photographers document this authoritarian drift without reproducing its mechanisms? How can one look—and show—when reality itself is being instrumentalized?

In December 2025, Christopher Anderson made headlines with his editorial for Vanity Fair: a journalistic commission presenting the Trump administration “without making it look good or bad, simply by shooting with honesty and reflection,” the photogra...

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