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October 16
Our book: shipping now from Paris
We’re pleased to announce that this year’s poster for tomorrow catalogue is now available to order. The catalogue contains (of course) the 100 posters selected by our jury as well as two essays from Roger Hood and Carolyn Hood (from Oxford University) and the International Federation of Human Rights on why universal abolition of the death penalty is so important.
The book has been designed by Ingrid van der Meulen (NL) and comes in three languages: English, French and Spanish so hopefully almost everyone can appreciate the book!
The book costs 15 euros and is available to buy from our website and FNAC bookshops across France.
You can see some pictures of it on our Facebook page, or watch this video below:
October 09
10/10/10 exhibitions now live!
The “Death is not Justice” exhibitions organised by poster for tomorrow are now opening in around 50 locations. We fell short of our 100 cities objective, but we can’t really complain.
People from all over the world helped us to put together two times the number the number of exhibitions we organised last year. We thank everybody who took part in achieving this great result.
Here you can find some pictures from our opening celebration at Les Arts Decoratifs in Paris. More will come in the next days.
This weekend other exhibitions will open in cities as Strasbourg, Beirut, Minsk and many others, also thanks to our partners the Council of Europe and the World Coalition against Death Penalty.
The exhibitions will display the 100 best posters out of the 2094 we received from 81 countries around the world. A petition will be present at our events for everyone to sign and make their statement against the Death Penalty.
You can find a list of places where the 100 posters are being exhibited across the world on 10/10/10 on our website. To make as easy as possible to understand what’s going on where, we have an interactive map allowing you to browse all our activities, locations, times and programs. The events are also available on our Facebook page.
October 06
Update: Belfast exhibition
Poster for tomorrow will be in Belfast for 10/10/10, but not in the City Council premises. The exhibition will take place in form of a protest against the City Council decision of taking out 30 posters from the exhibition.
We were open to removing a couple of posters from the exhibition, but instead the council proposed to put 30 posters in a room with "controlled access" (in their own words) on the 1st floor of the City Hall building.
We were open to removing a couple of posters from the exhibition, but instead the council proposed to put 30 posters in a room with "controlled access" (in their own words) on the 1st floor of the City Hall building.
We don't consider this decision to be a fair one: although this isn't strictly censoring the posters, it feels like a politically correct decision to effectively cut the exhibition by a third and remove the said posters to a place where no one can see them (or at least see them with an added degree of difficulty). We haven't accepted this offer nor do we plan to do so.
We'd like to point out that Belfast is the only city in the world in which our exhibition encountered this sort of resistance, out of a list that includes much more problematic cities such as Tbilisi, Marrakech, Beirut and 5 cities in Iran including Tehran.
A list of the events we're organising for 10/10/10 is available on our website and on our Facebook page.
September 27
We will not be censored
Around four months ago our local organiser in Northern Ireland asked to Belfast City Council for permission to use the Belfast City Hall for a poster for tomorrow exhibition. In September the city council finally gave its approval after two deliberations, the first one dating back to June.
So when the final posters had been determined, we supplied the city council with a copy of the posters that were going to be exhibited, only to discover that the local councillors from the Democratic Unionist Party, the larger (and ruling) of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland, were horrified by our pictures and didn't want at least 10 of the ones they considered the most shocking to be exhibited in their city hall.
The story was covered by the Irish News last Saturday. The article contains the thoughts of David Rodway, a DU Party councillor who sees himself as "a relatively open-minded person" who "can't understand why anyone would want to look at images of people being hanged", before calling poster for tomorrow a "communist committee".
The article was illustrated with one of the posters in question, made by Vladimir Sabillon, in which it is possible to see one of Goya's masterworks: "El tres de mayo 1808 en Madrid" inside a human silhouette surrounded by China's national colours. It's remarkable how a 200 years old painting of people being shot, as David Rodway might say, is still able to cause such debate.
There are other parts of the world where poster for tomorrow is not being welcome by governmental institutions. In Pakistan our local contact was arrested and released after three days for having tried to organise an exhibition in his home town. Also our local organisers in Malaysia and in Syria have been arrested on similar grounds.
As Hervé Matine told The Irish News: "we won't be censored by anyone". Many underground exhibitions are being organised at the moment in those countries where the death penalty is most controversial, China and Iran, and our supporters in Belfast are ready to place the posters in the streets if the city council will not allow us to hold the exhibition.
September 27
The events & the posters
It's now possible to browse the programmed activities taking place on 10/10/10 on our website. The interactive map is available here to check locations, times and programs.
A list of exhibitions will also be available on our Facebook events page in the next few days.
Here's a sneak preview of what our jurors selected as the 100 posters to be exhibited around the world. We’re very excited about the quality of the posters, and want to share ten with you before all 100 are published on 10/10/10. Enjoy!
| Skull Bladimir Trejo Ecuador |
It must be stopped Natalia Lazarashvili Georgia |
50 Aida Torkamani Iran |
We need the time to reflect Tomoko Miyagawa Japan |
| Legal murder is not justice Valerie Pettis USA |
Requiem para los del 3 de mayo Vladimir Sabillon Honduras |
Death map Jan Sabach USA |
Adieu! Jochen Shievink Germany |
| Abolish the death penalty Jenna Read Australia |
A truth revealed by its own cycle Anadel Velasquez Mexico |
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September 02
Gearing up for 10/10/10
With only just over a month to go, we are announcing our program for 10/10/10, the World Day against the Death Penalty and we're doing it with style using the poster that Alain Le Quernec has made for us. Please spread the love.
We have already confirmed exhibitions in New York, Paris, Brussels, Geneva, London, Sao Paolo, Beirut, Seoul and more than 30 other cities. You can see the complete list of the locations in our official press release. We’d like to thank the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the European Parliament for their help in putting these all together.
We’re still looking for further locations; if you’re interested please get in touch.
There are many other updates about the petition from the Community of Sant’Egidio and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty that we're relaunching, on our exhibitions and music events and on how you can take part of it. If you're interested to know the details, we advise you to read the full press release pdf, which is available in other languages too. Look for the "latest press release" box on the left side of the screen.
The founding premise of poster for tomorrow is that we have strength in numbers. From today we hope to make that a stronger proposition by inviting you to become a member of poster for tomorrow. The more members we have, the more weight we have when talking to institutions, charities, governments, anyone and everyone. And the more we can get done.
For thirty euros a year you receive a copy of catalogue and a range of discounts from our sponsors. But more importantly you’ll be helping ensure that we can carry on our work and keep on raising issues that matter in the public eye. Log in and find more details in your account page.
July 26
Shirin Ebadi launches our new avatar initiative
We recently sat down with Shirin Ebadi, the Nobel peace prize laureate, to ask for her opinion on the death penalty and activism. You can read her answers below.
She also agreed to launch our new initiative to change your Facebook or Twitter avatar to a picture of yourself holding the “Death is Not Justice” logo.
It’s really easy to do, just download the logo here, print it and take a picture of you (or anyone else you want) holding it. See you on Facebook!
Poster for tomorrow: What is your personal motivation for campaigning against the death penalty?
Shirin Ebadi: I'm against the death penalty as I am against any form of violence. It is simply barbaric. Moreover, there's always the chance of a mistake in the judicial process - a mistake that is impossible to reverse in the case of the death penalty.
PFT: Why is it particularly important that people in "democratic countries" (like USA and Japan) that practice the death penalty campaign for universal abolition?
SE: Because in these countries it is possible for public opinion to pressure the government to demand abolition. This is why it's important for the creative and cultural sectors of society to make the general public aware of the issue.
PFT: What can I do as an artist do to raise public awareness of this issue?
SE: There are many books written about the death penalty and abolition but sometimes a picture or a cartoon or a painting can be much more effective than a book. People might not have the time or the opportunity to read books on the subject but a quick glance at a poster could have the same result.
July 27
2094 posters received, thank you!
We’re delighted to announce that poster for tomorrow received 2094 posters for this year’s competition. The quality was exceptionally high and we’d like to thank everyone who entered; we hope, and we think, that we’ve amassed a body of creative work that can be of real use in the movement towards abolition.
We’d also like to thank the associations who helped us the most to promote the competition: FIDH, Council of Europe and World Coalition Against Death Penalty. Thank you all very much!
The online jury will start their work in August, before the live jury selects the final 100 posters in Paris in September. All the posters will be made public on 10/10/10.
But we don’t stop there, it’s a good news day all round; we’re pleased to announce that we have exhibitions already confirmed in New York (with the support of the United Nations) and Brussels (with the support
of European Union).
There are already 25 locations around the world that agreed to hold poster for tomorrow exhibitions on 10/10/10. We'll let you know more about it in an official update that we'll release in a couple of days. There's lots of new initiatives coming up, so please stay tuned!
July 19
Death is not Justice: Deadline postponed
We're postponing the "Death is not Justice " deadline three days, to give you a little bit extra time to participate. The reason why we're doing so is that we'd like to make sure that everybody who took the effort of designing a poster for the competition will be able to enter it. But many of you had technical issues in uploading their artworks.
Hopefully you'll be able to address those issues in the next few days, with some help coming from our side too – we're trying to handle all your requests as quick as possible.
In case you need assistance, don't hesitate dropping us a line or writing on our facebook page.
The new deadline is Thursday the 22st of July, at midday (12:00), Pacific Daylight time (GMT +7).
June 10
Death is not Justice: Official Call for Entries poster
You've been waiting for it and here it is, our call for entries poster. It might not be very timely, but it's better late than never...
We'd like to thank the author, Julian Naranjo, who designed the touching artwork.
Julian is renowned Chilean designer who runs a studio by his own name. We're happy to have him on board as a member of our online jury.
We hope you'll like the poster. It comes in a variety of flavours, for you to post, print and distribute. Thank you so much for your support!
Click on a format to download it: