The last Poster Monday spot for the day is for Jorge Matías Garnica and his sad poster entitled No se mata la verdad matando periodistas (The Truth is not Killed by Killing Journalists). On July 31, 2015, four women and one man (an activist and photojournalist among them) were tortured and killed by coup de grace in an apartment in Mexico City. Within this context, the concept of this poster is that in Mexico the freedom of expression is a high risk activity: speaking, writing and even photographing the violence and corruption, is paid with life.

This poster seeks to denounce political repression and censorship against freedom of expression in Mexico, condemning censorship and violence, while serving as a graphic memory of this tragic event. The poster is part of Imágenes en Voz Alta (Images Outloud), a bank of free and royalty free images that can be shared freely in social networks and electronic or print media, as well as be downloaded in high quality format to be printed, distributed and used in individual or collective manifestations.

Jorge Matías Garnica was born and raised in Puebla, Mexico. He studied graphic design at the Autonomous University of Puebla. In 2006 moved to Mexico City to work in The Time Machine, then the study of Alejandro Magallanes. His worrk is focused mainly on designing book covers for Grupo Santillana, Editorial Planeta, Random House Penguin, Editorial Ocean, McGraw-Hill, among others. Jorge shares with us his view of design: “Designers are translators of oral and written language graphic-symbolic language as well as writers and poets, we may have the ability to modify and adapt the language to create new concepts”. He is currently studying philosophy as a second career and on this note he says: “I have noticed that I know nothing”.

You can see the image bank a no more information of Imágenes en Voz Alta here: http://elsilencionoesopcion.org/

If you want to learn more about Jorge, check him out on Facebook.

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