(images are numbered for discussion, not ranked)
Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit to this week’s Trayvon Martin cover contest. Here are all of the images, including the winner and runners-up, so that you can flip through and form your own opinions. I love watching artists sift through a difficult event to find its visual symbols. For the Trayvon Martin shooting, hoodies, guns and skittles rose to the top. This is a necessary sort of reduction - in telling visual-stories, we reduce events to their essence and use those symbols as blocks with which to construct complex ideas. As always, I am interested to hear your thoughts.
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This week’s topic was tough : Trayvon Martin. For my submission (#69) I decided to represent the sadness of lost of a...
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Behind the scenes atThe New Yorker with art editor 