Tag: portrait
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“Portrait of a person who’s not there”: Documenting the bedrooms of school shooting victims
“Portrait of a person who’s not there”: Documenting the bedrooms of school shooting victims – CBS News Watch CBS News Over the past six years, the parents of school shooting victims opened their doors to CBS News’ Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp, inviting them to see what it’s like to live alongside their children’s…
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How do you make a portrait of a child who isn’t there? Photographer Lou Bopp found a way, but it wasn’t easy.
In early 2018, I was deplaning after an 18-hour flight when Steve Hartman called. He had an idea: to photograph the still-intact bedrooms of kids who had been killed in school shootings. It’s a headful. And six years later, I still don’t have an “elevator pitch” for the project — but then, I don’t often…