Just months after ten-year old Rojelio Torres was killed by a teenage gunman who opened fire in a Uvalde elementary school, a trio of his relatives raced around the cemetery where most of the victims, including Torres, had been buried. Seen mid-stride and surrounded by countless gravestones, the three children appeared joyful. They were—for the moment—smiling. That scene was one of many captured by 36-year old Texas photojournalist Tamir Kalifa in the aftermath of the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, which left nineteen students and two teachers dead. Its composition—playful children set against the gravity of the cemetery and the unspoken fact of their relative’s death—is characteristic of much of Kalifa’s photography, which often depicts human resilience in the face of extraordinary trauma. That mass…
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