Throughout the world, more and more reporters try to grasp the news by drawing their observations, instead of writing in-depth articles or taking pictures. More subjective than traditional journalism? Pioneers like Joe Sacco, who traveled the frontlines of Palestine, Bosnia and Chechnya, would doubt it. And what kind of journalism is objective anyway?
The Amsterdam Press Museum shows work of Sacco and his European colleagues in the exhibition ‘Comics Journalism: The Illustrator as a Reporter’. The diversity in the choice of subjects and the way of drawing of the artists is fascinating. One of the best Dutch examples of using illustrations as an innovative way of journalistic storytelling might be the recently released ‘Refugee Republic’, an interactive travel through a Syrian refugee camp in Northern Iraq (drawings by Jan Rothuizen: http://www.volkskrant.nl/refugee-republic/intro_en.php?o=)
Exhibition ‘Comics Journalism’ in the Dutch Press Museum
Until March 1, 2015
Zeeburgerkade 10, Amsterdam
The Netherlands
http://persmuseum.nl/expositie/stripjournalistiek/
