Loyola Humanities Symposium

Every Year Loyola University Maryland holds a humanities symposium where a common text is chosen and the author of said text speaks. For 2022 the theme was Displacement and Belonging and followed the book “When the Emperor Was Divine” by Julie Otsuka. This story followed people living in Japanese internment camps during World War II. As a result I thought about what would be the best way to represent the theme and I thought about using Photos. I took a real photo of a family trapped in a Japanese internment camp and split the picture so that it tells one coherent story yet it is displaced in terms of continuity and placement. Each frame seems to tell a different story despite it being a manipulation of the same image. This poster was submitted to a contest to be chosen and used, and while it did not win it made it to the finals of decision making out of the possible 20 options.