I took this image in January, a day before the South Carolina Democratic primary. As a twenty-something, this is the first time I've seen people actually get excited about politics.

When I was in South Carolina, there was this undeniable energy - volunteers on every street corner, students parading through campus yelling for people to vote - that I had never seen before. The feeling was, and I think still is, that with the race so tight, individual votes actually count for something.

I spent the entire weekend of the primary trying to capture the excitement. I got this intense adrenaline rush when I finally snapped this image.