Portraits of survivors featured in “SHOT” photography book
Brooklyn BookBeat
“This is what surviving gun violence looks like,” Megan Hobson, a survivor pictured in Kathy Shorr’s forthcoming photography book “SHOT” writes.
The idea for the project began when photographer Kathy Shorr came face-to-face with a gun during a home invasion and later as a high school teacher when she encountered numerous memorials to victims of gun violence. But, her “thoughts focused on the others — the survivors of gun violence. Where were their tributes?” she writes in the introduction.
The 101 survivors photographed in “SHOT” range from a third-grade student to a bus driver and an ex-gang member to a rock musician of different ethnicities and ages. The project is meant to pay homage to survivors and advocate Shorr’s support of “sensible gun laws that do not infringe upon the rights of responsible individuals to own a gun.”