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The images she drew of him in 2008 were the first to be made public since his capture and secret detention in 2003. | The images she drew of him in 2008 were the first to be made public since his capture and secret detention in 2003. | ||
In 2013 Hamlin published ''Sketching Guantanamo: Court Sketches of the Military Tribunals 2006–2013''.<ref name=SketchingGuantanamo/><ref name=lareviewofbooks2013-10-17/> | |||
Fellow journalist [[Carol Rosenberg]] contributed a foreword, and journalists [[Michelle Sheppard]] and [[Jane Sutton]] contributed chapters on [[Omar Khadr]] and [[David Hicks]]. | |||
In her review in the ''[[Los Angeles Review of Books]]'' [[Jillian Steinhauer]] questioned Hamlin's efforts to be objective in her coverage, suggesting Guantanamo was too highly charged a topic for true objectivity to be possible.<ref name=lareviewofbooks2013-10-17/> | |||
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Revision as of 01:06, 11 October 2023
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Janet Hamlin is an American artist.[1][2][3] She is notable for providing 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.
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][4][5] The images she drew of him in 2008 were the first to be made public since his capture and secret detention in 2003.
In 2013 Hamlin published Sketching Guantanamo: Court Sketches of the Military Tribunals 2006–2013.[6][7] Fellow journalist Carol Rosenberg contributed a foreword, and journalists Michelle Sheppard and Jane Sutton contributed chapters on Omar Khadr and David Hicks.
In her review in the Los Angeles Review of Books Jillian Steinhauer questioned Hamlin's efforts to be objective in her coverage, suggesting Guantanamo was too highly charged a topic for true objectivity to be possible.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Mohammed Al Shafey. Q & A with Guantanamo Courtroom Artist Janet Hamlin, Asharq Alawsat, 2010-06-10. Retrieved on 2010-06-15.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ben McGrath. By A Nose, 2008-07-07. Retrieved on 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.'”
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 9/11 Suspect: Artist Drew My Nose Too Big, CBS News, 2008-06-05. Retrieved on 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.”
- ↑ http://www.usatoday.com/news/topstories/2008-06-05-3373294059_x.htm Andrew O. Selsky. Alleged 9/11 plotter says artist made nose too big, USA Today, 2008-06-05. Retrieved on 2010-06-16.
- ↑ Jess Bravin. A Nose Job, Wall Street Journal, 2008-06-05. Retrieved on 2010-06-16.
- ↑ Janet Hamlin (2013). Sketching Guantanamo: Court Sketches of the Military Tribunals 2006–2013. Fantagraphics Books. ISBN 9781606996911. Retrieved on 2023-10-11.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Jillian Steinhauer. Sketching Injustice: The Official Court Drawings From Guantanamo Bay, Los Angeles Review of Books, 2013-10-17. Retrieved on 2023-10-11. “Hamlin sees herself as more than a court artist; as she writes in the book, she considers her work 'visual journalism.' In that case, the questions become even more pressing: Is objectivity possible, and is it optimal? Is there a point at which neutrality becomes complicity?”