Simon Akam

Photography: US Elections

19-year-old student Davina Pitts with Obama campaign aides David Nibert and Alice McAlexander at a voter registration event at Virginia State University, a historically black college in Petersburg, Virginia. The Obama campaign's victory in Virginia, the first time the state had voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964, was helped by an unprecedented mobilisation of African American voters. (Simon Akam)
24 September 2008
19-year-old student Davina Pitts with Obama campaign aides David Nibert and Alice McAlexander at a voter registration event at Virginia State University, a historically black college in Petersburg, Virginia. The Obama campaign's victory in Virginia, the first time the state had voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964, was helped by an unprecedented mobilisation of African American voters. (Simon Akam)