In the 1990s, photojournalist Stephen Shames began using his camera to expose the effects of new automatic hand guns on communities. “Photography has the ability to make people aware of things, but journalism and photography cannot produce change by themselves,” Shames recently noted. “Images get wider distribution, but change is still a slow, cumbersome process. Look at the recent police shootings of young black men in the United States. Those images were splashed all over the place, people marched and protested; yet there are still no indictments. Awareness is just the first step in the process.”