Overview
- Netflix will premiere All the Empty Rooms on Dec. 1, following Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp as they visit bedrooms kept for children killed in school shootings.
- The project spans seven years and includes roughly 10,000 photographs from eight families across five schools, with a selection previously shown in a New York exhibit.
- Documented rooms include those of victims from Sandy Hook, Parkland, Saugus High School, and Nashville’s Covenant School, such as Hallie Scruggs and Gracie Muehlberger.
- Families describe the rooms as anchors of memory, with some preserving them untouched and others, like the Muehlbergers, relocating and designating a memorial space called Gracie’s Point.
- A 60 Minutes segment highlighted the enduring grief as Anderson Cooper grew emotional, and Hartman says he will continue photographing rooms at families’ request as more than 160 children have been killed since Sandy Hook.