A Photographer of Absence | Lou Bopp | TEDxStLouis
What remains after unimaginable loss? Photographer Lou Bopp reflects on documenting the bedrooms of children lost to school shootings and explores how photographs can preserve memory, create empathy, and help us confront absence in profoundly human ways. Through images that reveal what words cannot, he invites us to consider how we remember - and why it matters.The Oscar®-winning All the Empty Rooms is a seven-year project with Steve Hartman, CBS News, and Joshua Seftel, Director.
TEDxStLouis is dedicated to discovering, developing, and sharing ideas that positively impact St. Louis and beyond. Since 2013, TEDxStLouis has produced more than 200 talks reaching millions of viewers worldwide. Learn more at TEDxSaintLouis.org Lou Bopp is an on-location commercial photographer specializing in lifestyle photography of people and pets, with an aesthetic approach that blends honesty, texture, and connection to create compelling moments for some of the world’s biggest brands.
He has multiple Communication Arts Advertising Awards.
His work centers on crafting authentic, lifestyle-driven imagery for pet brands, pharma, corporate, and industrial. With years of experience, he's built extensive global image libraries, led advertising campaigns, and produced editorial and short-form motion assets for web and broadcast, including full-length documentaries.
Lou is the creator of the stills and featured in the Oscar®-Winning Netflix Film "All the Empty Rooms". Over seven years, CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman and he traveled the country to document bedrooms left largely untouched, capturing intimate portraits of how parents preserve their children's spaces long after they are gone. This documentary was directed by Josh Seftel.
He's collaborated with a wide range of clients, including eBay, Mississippi Tourism, Nestlè Purina, Marley Coffee, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche LA, AMD, Goldman Sachs, Intel, Nike, AMEX, PetSmart, American Airlines, Disney World, Time Warner, J. Walter Thomas, AG Edwards, CDW, Y & R, McCann-Erickson, FutureBrand, and more.
One of his images was selected for a USPS First-Class Forever stamp.
He has two books published: Hidden History of Mississippi Blues (History Press) and Mississippi Juke Joint Confidential: House Parties, Hustlers & the Blues Life (Arcadia Publishing).
Lou has been featured on The CBS Sunday Morning Show, 60 Minutes, CNN, and Esquire Magazine, to name a few. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx Receive SMS online on sms24.me
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