From teenagers with glocks to middle-aged mums with shotguns – these portraits from Melbourne photographer Tom Franks place an Aussie lens on US gun culture.
Melbourne photographer Tom Franks jumped on a plane to Arizona earlier this year with a wild plan to photograph everyday gun owners in their homes. But how would he, a random British-born Aussie who’s naturally alarmed by the sight of guns, ever get them on board?
“They don’t see gun ownership as a bad thing. They’re very proud of it … Everybody owns a gun. It’s like having a cordless drill in your house.”, is a surreal sight for Australian audiences. The crisp, almost hyperreal portraits feature a middle-aged woman brandishing a shotgun in her kitchen, a mother carrying her toddler and a glock, and a nine-year-old girl reading a book with a junior rifle at the head of her bed.
Only 20 per cent of Democrats say they own guns, for example, compared to 45 per cent of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents. Just 25 per cent of women say they own a gun, as opposed to 40 per cent of men.and relaxed gun laws, noting it is an “open carry state”: “you could walk down the street with an AR15 assault rifle over your shoulder”. He ended up in the city of Prescott, with a population of around 47,000, after connecting with a group of men at a local gun range.
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