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Faces da (In)diferença

Role

Art Direction
Curatorship
Illustration

Commissioned by the Fórum Brasileiro de Segurança Pública for its 11th Annual Meeting, Faces da (in)diferença was a public awareness initiative created to humanize the statistics behind lethal violence in Brazil. The project translated statistical data into a visual system of one hundred illustrated portraits, distributed according to the demographic profiles of victims.

Black man, around 40 years old.
Illustration by Mitsuru Martins

I developed the creative direction and coordinated a group of 20 Brazilian illustrators, including myself, in interpreting these profiles. Each artist was assigned a specific demographic group while maintaining their own visual approach, creating a system where different illustration languages reflected the diversity within the data.

Black man, around 30 years old.
Illustration by Mitsuru Martins

Black man, around 30 years old.
Illustration by Mitsuru Martins

Illustrations by André Yuki Fukuda, Caco Sarcáno, Danilo Garcia, Derik Maciel, Felipe Nakata, Fernando Molina, Francisco Henrique, Giovanna Massieri, Laerte Costa, Leandro Moura, Letícia Nuvem, Luciano Afonso, Maria Luíza, Mitsuru Martins, Paulo Toledo, Pedro Fontoura, Ranan Virgo, Rhai Lander, Victor Fão and Wes Araújo