This is the second in a two-part series looking at far right movements and their supporters through the Magnum archive. The first focuses on the far right in the United Kingdom — read it here.

In 1990, when Carl de Keyzer wanted to photograph the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) setting a cross on fire, he had to phone Klan leader Thomas Robb in person. “The Klan was not very popular then, and these cross lightings did not happen very often,” he says. “Finally, one month before we went back to Belgium, I called him again. He didn’t remember me but said: ‘If you’re white, you can come’.”

In 2001, over a decade later, Jonas Bendiksen had a similar experience shooting a neo-Nazi family festival in Kentucky called NordicFest. A young photographer shooting ‘identity’ for a World Press Photo masterclass, he wanted to see the event because “the idea of it was so bizarre to me”. “I just cropped my hair short, bought a tent, and hoped they would love my Norwegian accent,” he says. As he suspected, they did, and welcomed him into the event which was “hidden away in a forest”.