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How Filmmaker and Street Photographer Jay Giampietro Saw Trump’s New York on Election Day 2016

Photographs taken on the streets of New York City on the day Americans chose Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States.

9:00 AM EST on November 9, 2016

The following images were captured by New York City-based filmmaker and street photographer Jay Giampietro over the course of November 8 and the early hours of November 9. — N.D.

This was the strangest night of all time in this city. I'm in shock. I didn't realize when I was shooting this stuff that I was documenting the triumph of a kind of people I didn't think existed in New York.

There's one guy called "Spiritual reckoning," who is one of the wildest characters I've ever seen in my life. I had tried to get a picture of him a few years ago but he freaked out and I've been on the hunt for him ever since. He was stomping around, eating Ding Dongs and downing Yoo-hoo and screaming vicious religious non sequiturs, "Trump is in charge. People are only gonna be allowed to have one kid, only allowed to have one pet." Really glad to have captured him.

"I Vomited"
Trump Trumps Tread
Motivational speaker
Flag socks
Angled people
Neon recliner
Patriotic scarves
Obamanator
Spiritual reckoning
America smile
Odd victory
Blacks for Trump
White smile
Political shackles
Happy American
Uncle Donald
Puffy signs
Rigid system

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