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Get-Up to Vote

by Kate Medley

Election Day is in the bag. Or dress. Or hat. As final votes are cast and tallied for the 2024 presidential election, photojournalist Kate Medley provides a dispatch from her work across the state of North Carolina covering the long election season, and gives us a glimpse of what’s in fashion across party lines.

Robin Cole, Greensboro, North Carolina.
Sonia Armstrong (left) and Gloria Snead, Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
Sheila Swift, Laurinburg, North Carolina.
Jerry Campbell, Laurinburg, North Carolina.
Carter Peele, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Annie Clark, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Wilmington, North Carolina.
Charlotte, North Carolina.
Wilmington, North Carolina.
T.L. Duryea, North Carolina.
Robert W. Watkins, Greensboro, North Carolina.
Beverly Falls, Durham, North Carolina.
Vincent Woodin, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Wilmington, North Carolina.
Wilmington, North Carolina.
Wilmington, North Carolina.
Selma, North Carolina.
Noah Beech, Asheboro, North Carolina.
Corbin Hasslinger (left) and Dante Fontani, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Erin Newkirk, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Wilmington, North Carolina.
Rebecca Feinglos, Durham, North Carolina.

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Kate Medley is a Durham, North Carolina–based visual journalist documenting the American South. Her work focuses on storytelling and environmental portraiture and often explores issues of social justice and the shifting politics of the region. Medley’s debut book of photography, Thank You Please Come Again, was published by The Bitter Southerner in 2023.

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