Political Comics | International Journalism Festival
Speakers at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, are also now part of an “Atlas of Faces,” thanks to the work of graphic artist Gianluca Costantini.
Politicalcomics.info says on its website that drawing “is a way to collect the music of chance in the faces of those who form part of a symphony without an apparent conductor: the buzz of the news, the brilliant article, the search for reason where there is no reason, all the things that normally journalists do, all these could be hidden perhaps in faces, rearranged in the map. Trying to catch the everyday work of people creating news: yes creating, for there is no news without a creator.”
Here are just a few of those creators.
Portraits & map of journalists #ijf14 [work in progress] http://t.co/LdsPCsuTmh via @journalismfest pic.twitter.com/Ah4QtCMNmW
— journalism festival (@journalismfest) March 12, 2014
A fun take on headshots for #ijf14 @journalismfest – speaker portraits by @channeldraw http://t.co/ogLqkmmKaG pic.twitter.com/SrPs3E9dNc
— Amanda Zamora (@amzam) March 28, 2014
Portrait of @pilhofer Portraits & map of journalists #ijf14 @journalismfest @nytimes http://t.co/YNXkOdGNce pic.twitter.com/v99NA1GdmQ
— Gianluca Costantini (@channeldraw) April 2, 2014
Portrait of @emilybell Portraits & map of journalists #ijf14 @journalismfest @TowCenter http://t.co/Bd4b8zOrRt pic.twitter.com/XQmVSRwZHq
— Gianluca Costantini (@channeldraw) March 16, 2014
Portrait of @LauraNorton Portraits & map of journalists #ijf14 @journalismfest @homicidewatch http://t.co/58JlNNAd0G pic.twitter.com/yKTyIqyknl
— Gianluca Costantini (@channeldraw) March 13, 2014
The festival takes place in Perugia April 30 through May 4. In October of last year, Poynter wrote about the cancellation of the festival, which is free to the public, due to a lack of funding. Thanks to a successful crowdfunding campaign, the festival’s now back on.
