Holy hell it's shooty out there y'all. Had us another mass shooting here in Louisville last night, somebody fired into a crowded park, killing two and wounding four more. Brings our total for the week to at least eleven dead and somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty wounded. Shooter is still on the loose so that should be fun...
That's more than enough heavy shit for one week though, so instead I thought I'd show you the circus that accompanies these tragedies.
"I've never covered a mass shooting before." Was showing a Getty photographer around when he made that comment to me, both of us unfortunately got to mark that off our bucket lists. I've been around the press plenty but this time was something else entirely. Surreal, like there was some strange disconnect. Here was this terrible tragedy and just a little ways away you had the makings of a movie set.
The absurd disconnect between the two was enough to make me question why I was out there shooting. Are all of us just vultures out here feeding on tragedy? Told myself that documenting things means both the good and the bad but it still leaves a slightly queasy feeling.
May not be able to change that but I can at least show you what it looks like. This local newsie was doing a piece on how parents and children are working through their emotions after the shooting.
May have accidentally managed to photobomb one of her shots.
It wasn't just the press however, seemed like every religious group in the country had sent people here. These Jehovah's Witnesses were set up right across the street from Old National Bank and the makeshift memorial on its steps. Billy Graham's outfit had a crew lurking on the sidewalk in front of the bank, reminded me of the missionaries and their ulterior motives that frequented eastern Kentucky when I was growing up.
2020 was a nice lesson in how much is lost and left out in creating that polished product we call news. That just makes it all the more fun to turn the camera on the process of making that product.
There was an element of the absurd to all the seriousness and gravitas being projected. I'm sure it looked good on television but watching a bunch of expensively dressed people having serious talks with a camera in the middle of an otherwise deserted and sketchy parking lot that none of them would be caught dead in after dark just seemed a bit ridiculous.
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Mass shootings may be very scary
Also, the pictures are good
Mass shootings are scary, just wish they wouldn't happen so often.
Thank you!
Even your photobombs are bomb.
Just don't tell the bomb squad.
You're a bomb.
You're a short fuse.
Exactly what you need.
Someone has to take mercy on you until you level up enough in this video game to have DEW capabilities and you've got a long way to go. Even more so when it takes two trys to get a few words out of your gimpyness (aka you're a dud, nope, not a dud, or a dude, in case you meant to put an "e" with that first comment)*
I didn't. It was a censor.
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Do you hear something ticking?
He's always ticking like a bomb, calling him what he is.
Don't call him, it might set him off!
Now, now, a little boom boom in the room keeps it from being a tomb. 😉
I thought it was the boom boom that sent you to the tomb?
Kind of like a war correspondent maybe, someone needs to document life as it unfolds.
Yeah, from what I've read some of them were equally uncomfortable with parts of that kind of work. Just wish documenting life didn't require you to be a bit of a bastard on occasion.
With the amount of gunfire we've had lately it might as well be a low grade war 😐
These are great, iconic works of art and testaments to the crazy news business. I wish you a time without shootings.
Thank you, on both counts. I just got back from a few days in the boonies and it was pleasantly free of gunfire. Now to see if Louisville can manage to imitate that...
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I'm waiting for the moment when you'll announce:
"We had a week in Louisville without a single fire gun" 😂
Ha, I wouldn't hold my breath, don't think that will happen in my lifetime. There might be the slimmest of chances that we go a week without somebody getting killed with a gun but without gunfire? Don't think that's possible.
Hope die last 😂 I'm the optimistic one!
Somebody has to make up for my pessimism! :D
We ended up with 14 homicides last week, had another person shot and killed this morning. A couple weeks ago a tech executive got stabbed to death in San Francisco and there was a bunch of articles talking about it and how bad crime had gotten there. It was San Francisco's 12th murder of the year, they have 200,000 more people than we do and we managed more than that in a week.
Sounds like Russian roulette competition US upgraded version...
Scary American dream....
I'm not even sure I have the words. Just crazy shit. The press, of course, needs to cover it, but that also feeds it. It's very symbiotic. And.. sad.
Crazy shit indeed. Yeah, I'm not for sure there are words for this that does it justice. People need to know and be informed but at the same time there just feels something wrong with it. Still haven't worked out how to do it right though. Sad, on so many fronts.
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It's interesting and scary at the same time but photoes are awesome.
Indeed, thank you!
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Thank you! I just got back from the land of little signal and even less coffee shops so it may be a bit before I have any photos for this but it should be a fun little adventure.
Ok, cool! No pressure 😉
btw, I look forward to reading about your recent little adventure:)
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