ABOUT THE PROJECT
In Baltimore, one of every three people struck by gunfire dies. It ranks as one of the most lethal of America’s largest cities, according to a Baltimore Sun analysis. Reporter Justin George undertook a yearlong investigation into this rarely studied phenomenon, documenting patterns of lethality based on hundreds of crime statistics, hospital data and gun trace reports as well as interviews.
MY ROLE
Visuals Editor & Audio Producer
In my role as the enterprise visuals editor for the project, I worked closed with George throughout his fellowship at Marquette University to gather interviews with victims of gun violence and police chiefs across the United States. I worked with visuals journalists Lloyd Fox and Karl Merton Ferron to photograph victims of gun violence in Baltimore, gain access to Shock Trauma for documentary photo and video purposes and get interviews with homicide detectives, criminologists, medical experts, and community activists.
Based on all these materials, I edited together a narrative video piece about the overall trend as well as several supplementary audio pieces to integrate within the overall visual presentation. Also, in order to create an impactful print design, I art directed a conceptual photo shoot in a controlled gun range with Fox to get the image of the gun being fired.