Polaroid Portraits: Capturing President Obama’s Second Inauguration

We sent photojournalist Tamir Kalifa to the inauguration to ask attendees why they came to the National Mall

(Tamir Kalifa)

By Tamir Kalifa

January 23, 2013

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