NEW: Bilats and Tea

In his first year in office President Barack Obama made eight foreign trips traveling to twenty countries, more than any of his predecessors. These tetraptychs convey the round-the-clock cognitive dissonance of such a journey, with its multiple agendas and audiences — “Bilats and Tea,” the photographer calls it, using the diplomatic jargon for a bilateral talk. Assembled are a visual scrapbook of impressions that convey the incongruities and harmonies of the world rushing by during the whirlwind of a presidential tour abroad.