In 2020, photographer Sinna Nasseri set out on a cross-country road trip to capture what Americans were thinking and feeling during that contentious election year. He examined a rather different—if not entirely unrelated—scene this week when he headed to 2022 Met Gala, where the theme was, appropriately enough, “In America: An Anthology of Fashion.”
Nasseri was on hand over the course of the star-studded evening to record all kinds of blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moments for posterity, from Swizz Beatz greeting Sarah Jessica Parker to two New York City mayors—one past, one present—locked deep in conversation. Below, see the night from Nasseri’s point of view:
