Photographer Puts Faces To The Groups Trump Has Bullied In Powerful Series

A compelling new project is taking Donald Trump’s hateful rhetoric and contrasting it against individuals whose lives and experiences are affected by the presidential candidate’s lies.

#NeverTrump is a portrait series from openly gay photographer Balthier Corfi, a Mexican immigrant who became fed up with the harmful language and stereotyping coming from the Trump campaign throughout the course of the 2016 election cycle.

Corfi brought friends and colleagues of different minority groups together to pose for #NeverTrump, and asked them to write responses on their arms to claims made by the republican presidential nominee about people in their communities.

”I am personally inspired by all of these people,” Corfi told The Huffington Post. “I tried to portray people from some of the groups that have been attacked by Trump’s speech: immigrants, latinxs, women ― the list goes on. Because it’s an ongoing project I still want to photograph people from groups that were not portrayed in the first set of images: veterans, muslims and try to include every group that has been bullied by his words. There are so many.”

Corfi told The Huffington Post that he thinks this is a crucial election for all minority groups, whose rights and livelihoods are under threat at the prospect of a Trump presidency.

As for queer people who are supporting Trump, the artist is having a hard time wrapping his head around that particular phenomenon.

“I feel somehow betrayed [by gay Trump supporters]. How can someone support Trump and Pence when they have been insulting us and fighting against our rights and other minorities’ rights?” Cofri continued. “I think they need to do more research about what these two men embody and the threat they represent not only to our LGBTQ community, but to the entire country.”

Corfi hopes that his work challenges viewers to consider the human impact of Trump’s rhetoric and the way he talks about minorities in America.

”I want to invite people to make a conscious decision when it comes to who they are going to vote for. Rights of LGBTQ people, women, immigrants, african americans, muslims and many others are on the table. I am sure everybody has at least one friend who is a member of one of these groups; I want the people to think about them and join the movement. We can’t let him win this.”

Check out more from #NeverTrump below. Want to see more from Balthier Corfi? Visit the artist on Facebook or Instagram.

Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.