Perilous Lens: Guns in an Urban Landscape
A thriving craft weapon industry suppports several thousand families in Danao, 550 kilometres south-east of Manila. Inside a grimy Danao workshop, a gunsmith scrutinizes a weapon he is crafting

Lucian Read

Lucian Read is a Texas-born New York-based photographer. Since 2002 he has worked in Iraq, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Balkans, the United States, and South-East Asia. In 2007, the Small Arms Survey commissioned him to photograph the impact of small arms violence on urban life in the Philippines. A selection of the resulting photographs is reproduced here and in the Small Arms Survey 2007: The Gun and the City.

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