Simon Akam

Photography: US Elections

LaShawndra Thorton, a student at the Mailman School of Public Health, sits outside a historic brownstone house in Harlem on election day. The neighbourhood, the upper swathe of Manhattan island, is the traditional hub of African American culture in the United States. (Simon Akam)
4 November 2008
LaShawndra Thorton, a student at the Mailman School of Public Health, sits outside a historic brownstone house in Harlem on election day. The neighbourhood, the upper swathe of Manhattan island, is the traditional hub of African American culture in the United States. (Simon Akam)