Shorr states that in a domestic violence shooting , the shooter always aims to kill , firing head or torso shots . Two of the 101 people Shorr has photographed had never experienced an incident of violent behavior by their boyfriend or husband before being shot .
There was . No warning . Signal . They just . Snapped .
The images are painful reminders of the dark side of humanity . “ On the other side ,” says Shorr , “ we live with so many courageous , inspiring people . I met 101 people who are real heroes . They went through tragedies that are hard to understand how anybody could go through . They are better people on the other side . They have moved on , and many have forgiven the people who shot them .” remind us of the loss we experience as well . Underneath gun violence , domestic or otherwise , is conflict . On this , poet , theologian , and mediator Pádraig Ó Tuama wrote in his poem “ The Pedagogy of Conflict ”:
When I was a child , I learnt to count to five : one , two , three , four , five . But these days , I ’ ve been counting lives , so I count one life one life one life one life Because each time is the first time that that life has been taken .
I know that Shorr wanted us to focus on the survivors of gun violence in her series . I want to go further . I want to
Stephanie Seguino is an artist and economist . She is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Vermont where her teaching focuses on inequality , with an emphasis on gender and racial inequality . In her creative work , Seguino ’ s medium is photography . Earlier work included a body of photographs using a Diana camera . More recently , Seguino has explored stereotypes of black men as well as of veiled women in her photography . She lives in Vermont , USA .
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