“I’m trying to take a picture of a child who’s not there,” says photographer Lou Bopp. He photographed the rooms belonging to eight children who were killed in five different school shootings. The families all agreed to let Bopp into their kids’ now-empty rooms. Dominic Blackwell’s room is still filled with SpongeBob. He was 14 when he was killed in the Saugus High School shooting in Santa Clarita, California. A basket of his laundry still waits to be washed. A toothpaste tube remains uncapped in the bathroom of 14-year-old Alyssa Alhadeff, who was killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Charlotte Bacon loved pink. She was 6 when she was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. There’s a library book in her room that’s now 13 years overdue. #photography #photographer #schoolshooting