Gun Nation

Gun Nation

A revealing and unsettling journey to the heart of America’s deadly love affair with the gun.

2016 · 30 min · ★ 7.0 · Documentary

In the 18 years since Zed Nelson’s seminal photography book Gun Nation was published, 500,000 Americans have been killed by firearms in the US and many more injured. Nelson returns to the people he met, photographs them again, and asks why America is a nation still with an insatiable appetite for firearms. Avoiding stereotypical images of gang members or extremists, Nelson focuses instead on another side of America’s gun culture: the mainly white middle classes who sell and purchase guns in vast numbers. […]

Directed by Zed Nelson

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