Callaghan O’Hare is a freelance photographer and multimedia journalist based in Houston, Texas. She’s drawn to long-form documentary projects that highlight the complexities of everyday life and humanize major social, political, and economic issues. In 2020, Callaghan spent months documenting the harsh realities of the COVID-19 pandemic, photographing in ICU wards across the country. Her coverage also included the pandemic’s impact on funeral homes, pregnant women, and children who lost parents to the disease. As a regular contributor to The New York Times, Reuters, and The Washington Post, she has photographed the aftermath of gun violence, hurricanes, the fall of Roe v. Wade, and Texas’ maternal mortality crisis.
School Shootings In America is meant to highlight the facts around America’s firearms and profile some of the thousands of young people and families who have been affected by school shootings since the Columbine massacre in 1999.
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