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Survivors: The Loneliest Club

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Like most Americans, photographer John Loomis is familiar with the stories of mass gun violence in the US. But during a photo shoot commissioned by CNN to help tell the story, “Survived By” he came face to face with and photographed its living victims.  For some, the tragedy was still fresh, while for others, years had gone by, and the sadness seems to have barely diminished.

Photographing 40 “survivors” in three hours was an intense emotional experience. Under the circumstances, John told us, “each subject was extremely open and generous because [they] believed in what CNN had accomplished by bringing them all together…”  We’ve published eight of the portraits  here, but sadly, there are  more in this series as well as many more”survivors” of gun violence and mass shootings.