
The Powerful Street Art Campaign Spotlighting Israel’s War On Gaza
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The conflict’s images are being turned into paintings and sketches with Obama “HOPE” poster creator Shepard Fairey involved in the Unmute Gaza project.
Street artists worldwide are showing solidarity with photojournalists who are risking their lives covering Israel’s war on Gaza.
Shepard Fairey ― of Barack Obama “HOPE” poster fame ― is among the dozens of artists who’ve joined the Unmute Gaza project that is amplifying the work of local photojournalists on the ground amid Israel’s continued ban on international media from entering the territory.
Fairey and others have recreated some of the harrowing images emerging from Gaza as paintings and sketches, with a mute symbol in the middle.
The artworks are downloadable for free from the project’s website. People are urged to print them out and paste them on walls in their own cities and towns to raise awareness of the conflict.
“By creating artworks based on the images of these professional photojournalists, we wish to build a bridge between our community of artists and those facing death every second in Gaza,” the Unmute Gaza collective, whose members are donating their time and resources freely, wrote on Instagram.













