Daniel Mayrit
You Haven’t Seen Their Faces
RIOT BOOKS • Madrid, 2015 • Designed by Verónica Fieiras and Daniel Mayrit • riot-books.com
Daniel Mayrit plays with the semiotics of law enforcement in You Haven’t Seen Their Faces. Full-bleed close-ups of the declared “100 most powerful people in the city of London” are printed in the style of grainy CCTV foot- age,with condemning information against them scrawled on every image. The book is a response to police fliers handed out after the 2011 riots in London,when surveillance images of alleged rioters’ faces were publicly distributed in a presumption of guilt. Mayrit flips this visual language on those believed responsible for events that are arguably far more damaging: the recent economic crises that have wracked Europe.Yannick Bouillis calls the design “streetwise”; held together by screws at the top, the images are printed on lightweight brown pages akin to butcher paper, and fastened to stiff cardboard. A map of the suspects’ headquarters is tucked into the back.
