Faces You Know – Jameel Newkirk

Faces You Know

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Self-directed

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Art Direction,

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In 2020, I started a project with simple a minimal approach to forming identity and what it could mean with less. Titled “Faces You Know”, it aims to explore identity through a series of circles and lines creating character and familiarity within the viewer of the subject; applying feelings, attitudes and sometimes even beliefs to rudimentary shapes.

Project Details

Campaign expanded to feature likenesses of community leaders, celebrities and other public figures from all 5 boroughs and sought out to lend their voices to the list of those unnamed yet somehow familiar.

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