​“Gun violence is a contemporary global human rights issue that threatens our most fundamental human right, the right to life”  - Amnesty International
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The twelve young people featured in Meditations in an Emergency are symbolic of the thousands killed every year by what has become the leading cause of death for American kids: gun violence.

The images have been selected from an extensive series of portraits that I made during a residency at the New-York Historical Society Museum in 2018, which represented teen activists staging ‘die-in protests’, calling for stronger gun control laws in the US. These protests - where participants lie on the ground to simulate being dead - are often employed by protest groups on a range of issues including: animal rights, anti-war, anti- trafficking, human rights, racism and environmental issues.