The Bronx Documentary Center presents until March 16 an exhibition School Shootings in America, featuring Barbara Davidson, Tamiralifa, Callaghan O’Hare, and Zackary Canepari.
On May 24, 2022, 19 children and two teachers were massacred at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. It took 77 minutes and the arrival of over 350 law enforcement officers before the classrooms were finally breached and the gunman killed. In the time since the shooting, the families of the 21 victims have slowly been working their way through a wilderness of grief, anger, despair, frustration and confusion – searching, if not for peace, then at least purpose. This long-term project documents the lives of these families since the shooting.
Zackary Canepari – Thoughts and Prayers
Thoughts & Prayers is a documentary project about the culture of active shooter preparedness and the normalcy of mass violence that has calcified in America and become commonplace for an entire generation born into a post-Columbine world. In the absence of meaningful gun reform, a $3 billion dollar cottage industry has inserted itself into our everyday lives as a possible solution to this violence. Empowered with training programs, products and technology, America is hardening itself for the inevitability of a mass shooting. pervasive threat of gun violence, and the lack of political will to address the issue at its core.
Callaghan O’Hare
This body of work highlights the immediate aftermath of a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School as well as the months that followed in Uvalde, Texas. On May 24, 2022, a gunman entered an elementary school and killed 19 students and 2 teachers. The small town was thrust into the national spotlight as an all too familiar scene in American life played out. (…) Over the coming months, the media left and the public’s attention shifted. No longer making headlines, the town was left to grieve. The flowers wilted, and residents grew angry at local law enforcement’s response to the gunman and the lack of accountability from the police. In the wake of the tragedy, parents became activists, schools built security fences, and vigils were held to mark the painful passage of time. Ultimately, Uvalde joined a long list of places across the country shaped, molded, and remade by gun violence.
School Shootings in America
Until March 16, 2025
Bronx Documentary Center
614 Courtlandt Ave.
Bronx NY
https://bronxdoc.org/
