Sen. Angus King shows his artistic eye on his Instagram feed

A child of the 1950s, Angus King came of age when the single reflex camera was popular among American families. Like other kids across the country fascinated with the magic of the medium, King carefully packaged up the film when he was done with a roll, sent it away to be developed and waited eagerly for the photos to come back in the mail.

These days, the U.S. senator from Brunswick combines his lifelong interest in photography with the immediacy of social media to show people aspects of his job they don’t often see. King posts iPhone photos on Instagram, but unlike many of his contemporaries in Washington, D.C., he is not interested in grip-and-grin pictures with other politicians or dignitaries. Perhaps because he’s from Maine, and people from Maine know something about art, King takes thoughtful, artistic photos and accompanies them with a few sentences that explain the photo and his perspective.

“I try to convey a better sense of what I am seeing and experiencing,” King said. “I’ve always enjoyed taking pictures, but I’ve never really practiced it. I just like trying to see unusual things.”

His style is a mix of street photography and documentation, providing a visual diary of the day-to-day life of a U.S. senator. He’s posted from aboard the USS George Washington aircraft carrier, from Greenland and the Arctic, and from small towns across Maine. He has a particular fondness for sunrises and sunsets, and like every good artist from Maine, he seems to understand the importance of natural light.

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