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The 100th Edition — Margot Friedländer
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The 100th Edition — Margot Friedländer

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung · 2024

Agency
Scholz & Friends Berlin
Campaign
The 100th Edition

Analysis

F.A.Z. photographed Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer reading among the blocks of Berlin's Holocaust memorial. The vast setting gives the newspaper portrait historical weight.

ScaleEditorial identity

Why it worked

The reader occupies a tiny part of the ordered field. That scale makes the act of reading feel like a statement about memory.

Lesson

Use the location of a portrait to add meaning to a recurring format.

Image source

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