SHOT: 101 Survivors of Gun Violence in America by Kathy Shorr
The increasing ubiquity of gun violence has become the norm across the world and particularly in the United States, where we have begun to hear horror after horror on a daily basis. So much so that it has started to produce a numbing effect, a helplessness that allows us to hear the news and say, “Here we go again,” and put it out of our mind. Gun violence is now something we expect to happen.
Content warning: Some images may be re-traumatizing for survivors. This photographic collection zeroes in on a small subset of victims of gun violence in the U.S., cutting across gender, race, ethnicity and socioeconomic groups. Many of these survivors, who hail from 45 cities across the country, were photographed in the spot where they were shot.