The Holes in Our System

Kamber Lee
2025

Overview of all recorded years
Shadow play
Stacked view of all images
Detail shot
Detail shot

This project confronts the escalating crisis of gun violence on K-12 school grounds, a trajectory that has transformed places of learning into sites of fear and loss. By printing photographs of school buildings from 1966 to today and physically puncturing each image to represent gun-related incidents, the work embodies both the fragility of our educational spaces and the systemic failures that have allowed such violence to persist.

Each hole is a stark reminder of the lives disrupted and a call to reevaluate the structures meant to protect and nurture our youth.

Each image was sourced online via public image domains, archives, and libraries.

Designer
Kamber Lee
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