cover image Gun Nation

Gun Nation

. Westzone, $45 (160pp) ISBN 978-0-9537438-3-4

""Guns seem to have followed me around most of my working life,"" writes award-winning British photojournalist Zed Nelson, who has covered armed conflict in Afghanistan, Somalia, El Salvador and elsewhere, before photographing U.S. guns and gun owners. Gun Nation, a collection of 103 of Nelson's images, displays shots of gun shows, gunshot victims, Columbine survivors and mourners, a coffee klatch-style group of female gun owners, and police are interspersed with brief commentary that leaves no doubt as to where his sympathies lie. ( May)