“Killing the messenger?” by Georgios Argyratos, is a derivative of “Julian Assange“, by Carl Gardner, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 LEGAL CODE Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International. Originally downloaded from flickr on 02/05/2024. Edited (cropped for composition) with BeFunky.
Hi Georgios! I think it’s really cool that we both selected Article 19, but we went about it in two totally different ways. I love the type of picture you selected; the outsider-looking-in/paparazzi style fits really well with what Julian Assage got arrested and exiled for, and I think it fits perfectly with the idea of freedom to access and impart information. However, Assage’s arrest and exile make us rethink if there should be boundaries depending on whether that information helps or harms an individual or impacts others. Your title suggests that maybe it’s okay to be the messenger, even for harmful information. Did you know when you picked Article 19 that you wanted to pair it with a picture of Mr. Assage and bring up tough questions, or did you have another interpretation in mind? I really like how you set the text in the picture too, how you curved it around the picture itself and set the white letters against a black background, like you were curving it around the edge of a camera lens. The font you chose for the article number looks similar to the article text. Maybe a more contrasting font or a different color for the article number would have given a different emphasis.