One of TIME Magazine's best photobooks of its year, Federal Triangle fuses a documentary approach to photography with the opportunity for alternative interpretations: simultaneously grounded in the real, and suggestive of the darker fantasies that pervade our political landscape. The project, titled after a government complex wedged between the Capitol and the White House, is a series of brief encounters with the trappings of power. Men with earpieces gather on corners next to cars bearing diplomatic plates. Black Suburbans idle in the alleys behind Georgetown mansions. Gardeners receive security inspections before entering walled compounds. Quotidian but intriguing, and sometimes darkly comical, these glimpses into the workings of our democracy give rise to a range of questions. If one were prone to paranoid projections, what kinds of encounters might activate darker conspiratorial fears and fantasies? What scenes and situations would evoke the paradoxical feeling of being close to and yet excluded from the seat of power? Osborne walks the perimeter and photographs the apparatus of state security as it operates in plain sight.