All images and text © Kevin Moloney

Photographed on assignment for The New York Times


Graffiti muralists Bimmer Torres, rear, and Ratha Sok, who call their business 2Kool, paint an Obama mural on the outside wall of a garage behind the home of Julie Rubsam of Denver. The mural was photographed and silkscreened onto t-shirts for the final night of the Democratic National Convention. With partner Tina Eyre, Rubsam started DenverCrat, a small garage-based apparel company nearly a year ago. They now sell their t-shirts, postcards and hats all over the city in anticipation of the convention.



Betty Square Jefferson, of Waxahachie, Texas, looks over the wares of T-shirt vendor Rufus Williams in Denver. Square Jefferson said she came to be in town for the historic nomination of a black man for president. Denver scrambled to welcome an estimated 50,000 delegates, volunteers, protesters and others to the convention.



Chained caricatures of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice tow an inflated globe through the streets of Denver as a march of multiple protest groups makes its way toward the Pepsi Center where the Democratic National Convention would be held. Despite a heavy presence of riot-gear-clad officers at the march destination, no significant problems arose.



A protester attempts to engage a Denver police officer as a march of multiple protest groups makes its way toward the Pepsi Center. Despite the antagonism, police officers at the march did not retaliate.



A protester stands above a phalanx of riot-gear-clad Denver police as a march of multiple protest groups stops at the Pepsi Center.


All images and text © Kevin Moloney

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