Age of Innocence - Children and Guns in the USA

Rylee, Donovan, Gracie, Catalyan, Lily, Michael... they are between 3 and 17 years old and live in Texas, Idaho, Louisiana, the State of New York. These children and teenagers posed with firearmsfor photographer Laurent Elie Badessi and answered one simple question: “What do you like about guns?”

The aim of this series of photographs is to explore how important guns are to many Americans — and this book invites us to squarely face the social, political, and moral realities that guns foster.