Photographer Sam Comen's portraits of voters in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Americans turned up in record numbers to vote on November 4, 2008 and elected Barack Obama as the first African American president of the United States of America. Photographer Sam Comen aimed his camera at the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California on election day. Sam photographed portraits of voters at 6 polling stations, witnessing chanting and high-fives for Barack Obama at Greater New Jerusalem Church, "Sista Soulja‚" on a DJ's microphone ordering people to vote at the Imperial Courts Recreation Center, and 19-year-old Frederick Sennie, who cast his first ever vote at George Washington Carver Park on this historic election day.