User:Geo Swan/Janet Hamlin
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Janet Hamlin | |
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| Nationality | USA |
| Occupation(s) | technical illustrator, courtroom artist, writer |
| Known for | The only illustrator allowed to sketch the Guantanamo Commissions |
Janet Hamlin is an American artist who provided the courtroom sketches in all the Guantanamo military commissions. She has also prepared book covers and movie posters. She is a technical illustrator, credited with illustrating dozens of books.[1][2][3][4]
She studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.[1]
The first time she drew alleged 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, she had to alter the drawings she made of him because he complained she made his nose too big.[1][2][3][5][6] The images she drew of him in 2008 were the first to be made public since his capture and secret detention in 2003.
In March 2013 publisher Fantagraphics announced they would be publishing a book containing 160 images Hamlin had prepared at the Guantanamo Commissions, together with Hamlin's own experiences there.[7][8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Mohammed Al Shafey (2010-06-10). "Q & A with Guantanamo Courtroom Artist Janet Hamlin". Asharq Alawsat. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
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Ben McGrath (2008-07-07). "By A Nose". Retrieved 2010-06-15.
'It's the hardest job I've ever done,' Hamlin said of Guantánamo. There were a couple of baseball caps on the shelf behind her, featuring an embroidered message on the back: 'It don't GTMO better than this.' She said that she has grown to appreciate some of the smaller 'heartwarming touches,' such as the soldiers' placing an orchid in the women's lavatory, but that she could do without the knowledge that the bottled water she'd been drinking was chilled in an oversized refrigerator nicknamed 'the morgue.' She said, 'It's a little macabre.'
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"9/11 Suspect: Artist Drew My Nose Too Big". CBS News. 2008-06-05. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
No photographers were allowed inside the courtroom for the first appearance of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged coconspirators on war crimes charges. So it fell to artist Janet Hamlin to provide the world with the first image of the al Qaeda kingpin since his capture in Pakistan in 2003.
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Mark Rykoff (2013-09-16). "An artist at Guantánamo Bay: Janet Hamlin's sketches are a rare visual record of the proceedings of the military tribunals". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
Hamlin was first sent to the court by The Associated Press to sketch the young Canadian detainee Omar Khadr in 2006. AP sent her twice more at which point she began to make regular trips to the base.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ http://www.usatoday.com/news/topstories/2008-06-05-3373294059_x.htm Andrew O. Selsky (2008-06-05). "Alleged 9/11 plotter says artist made nose too big". USA Today. Retrieved 2010-06-16.
- ^ Jess Bravin (2008-06-05). "A Nose Job". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2010-06-16.
- ^ Spencer Ackerman (2013-03-22). "10 Sketches From Inside Guantanamo Bay's Military Courtroom". Wired magazine. Archived from the original on 2013-03-24.
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Brett Schenker (2013-03-13). "Fantagraphics to Publish Book of Guantanamo Courtroom Sketches by Janet Hamlin". Graphic Policy. Retrieved 2012-11-.
Only one person was allowed to cover the trials, not with a camera but with her pencils and pastels. Janet Hamlin has been the only sketch artist covering the trials from 2006 to the present, granting the suspects humanity and dignity while allowing the world to see the process through an unapologetic lens.
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