The pictures from Mike Osborne’s Federal Triangle series depict an area of Washington, D.C., where the office buildings, monuments, and streets are inhabited by an unending stream of politicians, protesters, tourists, and service workers. The scenes often seem to allude to a particular event or encounter, but key contextual details remain out-of-frame or unphotographed, and the narratives remains hazy and unknowable. Withholding the essential context, Osborne says, opens the picture up “to projections that speak to the fear, doubt, dysfunction, and absurdity of the current moment in American political life.”