Editoral Illustration


Enzo Peres-Labourdette

When looking into editorial illustration I find the the New York time was a great source for finding more emotive/visceral imagery. For example the above images depict simple motifs from the real world relating to the article but include other elements that create a far more surreal final outcome that invokes a very emotional response in the viewer.

Despite being seemingly ambiguous images they do directly relate to the articles in question, one on suicide within traditional Amazonian tribes the other on the Tiger hunting trade in Chine, and communicate the given subject matter in a very immediate and provocative way.

Eleni Kalorkoti

Although the tone of voice is much more subdued and ephemeral in these images by Eleni Kalorkoti I think they work in the same way as the previous set of images.
This is in that they take real world, tangible motifs and put them into surreal/impossible setting that both creates highly effective, emotional imagery but also communicates the themes of the articles: weighing up the costs of diamond mining and the potential costs of modern lifestyles.

When approaching my author I think in will be key to go about it by trying create slightly surreal visceral imagery that evokes a more emotional response in the viewer. This is due to the intangible nature of much of Murakami's work which I feel wouldn't suite/benefit from more tangible forms of visual metaphors.