Guns and Poses: Does a gun take its shooter to the bottom of the barrel?

The exhibition covers a trajectory in which Schumann( who shot Lopez) offers a point of hope. Holt’s image of Tribal Chief Solomon in Sudan, on the other hand, is a conundrum. Solomon, the head of the Pojulu tribe whose main source of survival is the cultivation of cassava, beans and groundnuts, picked up weapons when war came. In the absence of any training, the tribals possibly learnt how to use these guns through trial and error. Today, after the war, they are unwilling to hand their weapons back.

Advocacy groups could find encouragement from the story of Christian Garcia of Guatamala, a 22-year-old computer wiz, who develops web pages and virtual platforms. His earlier career as a member of the mara gang is behind him now. Also from Guatamala is Silent, a young man whose face is hidden but the tattoos of his body reveal his past as a member of a gang. The text reads that the tattoos will fade with time “but the stains in your heart from years of violence cannot be erased”.