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2020Poster Series "Religious Oppression" - DPLA - 8ca1df828b1bbf6035baaef6d91bfac5
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2011Social Security Poster of a Mother and Her Child - NARA - 195886
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2018Poster advertising the Mud March of 1907 (reverse)
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2017Giya Makondo-Wills explores race, identity and colonialism in her powerful photography
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2018Jack Latham uses photography to explore stories untold
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2018Greg Holland's photographic career spans from hardcore shows to shooting for NGO's
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2019Uma Bista’s photographs address gender inequality in Nepalese communities
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2012John Delaney photographs soup kitchen volunteers with stunning poignancy
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2020There is a false sense of solidarity in the creative industry and it’s down to unpaid work
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2021Hana Gamal draws our attention to the significant and overlooked role women play in Egyptian agriculture
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2014Social Disruption with Technology
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2020Badge for Editathon on Online Harassment
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2020Crafted with Pride Poster - DPLA - 5b70b2ade6793d9aa659d8e25702c6e0
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2016Challenging sexism, workplace stress and mindfulness through illustration
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2019The latest issue of Der Greif takes a shockingly explicit look at censorship (NSFW)
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2020Refugees and asylum seekers across the globe tell their stories through disposable cameras in Goal Click’s latest series
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2019Meet Take Care, a magazine tackling the UK’s housing crisis
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2014Graphic Design: Incredible Cuban propaganda posters from OSPAAAL
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2011Social Security 45th Anniversary Poster - NARA - 196597
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2016Temperance poster promoting the prohibition of alcohol (22228800515)
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2019Yumna Al-Arashi on representation, tokenism and the attitude-changing power of photography
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2021Through makeup, Athena Paginton addresses topics of mental health, LGBTQIA+ rights and climate change
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2023After 50 years out of print, a reissue of Ernest Cole’s House of Bondage sheds light on the horrors of apartheid
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2015M.I.A and Gener8ion's new vid features 36,000 Chinese fighting school kids
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2017Breast cancer warrior, sex educator and performer: an extract from Riposte’s interview with Ericka Hart
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2013Illustration: New Yorker covers chronicle changing attitudes towards gay rights
![Диаграмма Мировая Безработица и Массовые Голодовки / [Chart of Global Unemployment and Mass Famines].](/api/local-img?p=canon%2Fdavid-rumsey%2Fchart-rumsey.jpg)
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1931Диаграмма Мировая Безработица и Массовые Голодовки / [Chart of Global Unemployment and Mass Famines].
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2015Art as a human right and why creativity is "pushed out of" London: we meet Bob and Roberta Smith
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2015Jim Tsinganos’ painterly illustrations tackle the world’s big issues
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2017Cause & Effect magazine is the new hub for “unheard voices” and “unseen bodies”
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2016William Knight's socially conscious portfolio of graphic design
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2016Temperance poster promoting the prohibition of alcohol (22040690650)
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2016Temperance poster promoting the prohibition of alcohol (22040677080)
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2025Illustrator Hayley Wall likes “the challenge of distilling something complex into a single image”
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1887Devil's toboggan slide — American anti-alcohol print
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2017Image of an outhouse from a poster created by the Housing and Sanitation Committee Civic League pushing for the abolition of public outhouses
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2018Ashley Lukashevsky on inspiring political resistance through illustration
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2012Chained girls poster 01
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1980This is the enemy – British poster
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2017New publication chronicles Soviet anti-alcohol posters throughout the ages
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2014Excellent photographs championing the power of girls by Jeff Boudreau
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2013Breathtaking portraits of America's gay community by Elle Perez
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1968Savior — Chinese poster
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2018"I aim to inject my work with a sense of empowerment": photographer Louie Banks
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2020In signature monochromatic style, Patricia Voulgaris’ photographs are impactful and empowering
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2016David Wilson directs deeply moving film B.E.N. about using AI robots to tackle loneliness
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2018Weapons of Reason's food issue is designed to inform, not preach, on systems that breed inequality
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2018The Female Perspective highlights and challenges social divisions through its design
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2016Temperance poster promoting the prohibition of alcohol (22040908908)
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2016Kim Gehrig discusses being a girl who can, and combining advertising with a social agenda at Here 2016
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2018Folder Studio's interactive documentary K-Town '92 highlights our "desensitisation to societal trauma"
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2020Drawing from personal experience, Rosi Tooth’s illustrations are sentimental, pink and extremely relevant
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2012Photography Prix Pictet shortlist has been announced, this years theme: Power
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2016Temperance poster promoting the prohibition of alcohol (21607681543)
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2023Protest von Tibetern und Uiguren vor dem Brandenburger Tor gegen die Olympischen Spiele Beiing 2022 10 (cropped) (cropped)
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2026Andaman cellular jail case gallery 20260205 poster 3
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2021Genderbread Person v4 POSTER 18x28
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2025An exhibition of Palestinian photographers visualises the lasting significance of ‘land’
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2022Alice Bibette depicts what it’s like for an LGBTQ+ person under the Taliban regime
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2023Some People With Severe Depression - People With Mental Illnesses Who Enrich Or Have Enriched Our Lives (22741192277)
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2019Sally Thurer's critical design practice reaches beyond what you can see with your eyes
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2022Jongens kijken naar poster over het nut van welzijnswerk, 1977
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2011"For the Square Deal and the Square Meal Share the Meat" - NARA - 514303
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2022The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, vol. 20
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2011Social Security Poster, widow - NARA - 195879
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2021Starvation Blues poster
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2016Temperance poster promoting the prohibition of alcohol (22239140161)
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2023Protest von Tibetern und Uiguren vor dem Brandenburger Tor gegen die Olympischen Spiele Beiing 2022 07
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2026Is Your Home Worth Fighting For (poster)
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2016Temperance poster promoting the prohibition of alcohol (22040624030)
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2016Temperance poster promoting the prohibition of alcohol (22215918002)
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2026Tadeusz Trepkowski Sprawa rodzinna
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2022The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, vol. 16
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2016Temperance poster promoting the prohibition of alcohol (22216011422)
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2023Protest von Tibetern und Uiguren vor dem Brandenburger Tor gegen die Olympischen Spiele Beiing 2022 05
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2023Protest von Tibetern und Uiguren vor dem Brandenburger Tor gegen die Olympischen Spiele Beiing 2022 02
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2020Event Editathon Online Harassment 9547-b
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2026Andaman cellular jail case gallery 20260205 poster 30
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2016LGBT in advertising: “What we need now is bravery"
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2015New York Magazine brings together 35 Bill Cosby accusers for powerful cover
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2017Creative messages on migration, diversity, health and youth at Nicer Tuesdays November
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2018Clement Chapillon's work explores people and place, Israel and Palestine
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201850 Years of Choice: a publication of 50 posters by 50 women discussing abortion
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2017Introducing Broccoli, the publication “normalising cannabis use, especially for women”
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1835Carte figuratives : Crimes contre les propriétés -- Crimes contre les personnes.
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2017Cat Sims confronts issues of social housing in latest zine, Space
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2020Eliza Hatch returns with a powerful series documenting youth activists
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2025Lucia Klander uses expressive type and intricate grids to spark conversation
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2018Illustrator Cécile Dormeau on body diversity and defying convention
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2018Photographer Zun Lee's view of fatherhood will change your preconceptions of black masculinity
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2015Unfortunate Name, Inexcusable Logo
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2014New Anthony Burrill and Ewoudt Boonstra posters use innocent victims to lampoon US gun laws
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2014Sofia Niazi's poignant project about the women of the war on terror
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2015Brands for Same Sex Marriage
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2019Illustrator Anshika Khullar creates snapshots of the lives of underrepresented people
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2018Chow and Lin documents the world’s inequality of wealth using Google Earth
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2018Thom Pierce on using photography to amplify the protests of a rural South African community
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2013Opinion: Does feminism need rebranding? Comments welcome
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2021What is love and where does it come from? Nate Palmer asks these questions in his thoughtful photography practice
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2021Photographer Kemka Ajoku tells stories of Black British culture and experience
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2022How Aude Nasr weaves activism through her richly patterned illustrations
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2019Rejane Dal Bello on using graphic design to talk about hard topics in a joyful way
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