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Court Sketches of the Military Tribunals, 2006-2013
Fantagraphics
October 2013
On Sale: October 18, 2013
176 pages
ISBN: 1606996916
EAN: 9781606996911
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The U.S. government does not allow photographs of
the military trials at Guantanamo, but in 2006, Janet Hamlin
went to Guantanamo as a courtroom sketch artist — the only
one covering these trials — and this book collects her most
potent and revealing sketches, as well as chronicles her
experiences there. Camp X-Ray in the U.S.
military base in Guantanamo, Cuba, opened in January, 2002
in the wake of the 9-11 attacks to house alleged terrorists
— off the American mainland, unaccountable to the U.S.
judiciary — in “indefinite detention.” Newer and more
permanent prisons were later built miles away, and continue
to house terrorist suspects today. The United States
government does not allow photographs of the military trials
at Guantanamo, but beginning in 2006, Janet Hamlin went to
Guantanamo as a courtroom sketch artist to serve as a visual
witness to the courtroom prceedings and provide worldwide
media with artwork drawn during them. She has been the only
sketch artist covering these trials from 2006 to the present
time. Sketching Guantanamo is both a collection of her most
potent and revealing sketches drawn during this period, as
well a chronicle of her experience at Guantanamo. Before
entering the viewing booth behind multi-paneled soundproof
glass in the back of the court, Hamlin is daily subjected to
thorough searches, wanding, and metal detecting in three
separate checkpoints. The U.S. government and even detainees
can demand that certain details be ”smudged” or even
changed. When one detainee who had just pled guilty demanded
that sketches of him not be released, Hamlin staged a
four-hour sit-in until the authorities relented. Hamlin’s
drawings and her accompanying text provide rare insight into
the military courts of Guantanamo. The trials are considered
notorious and historic, among the most carefully censored
trials in recent U.S. history, and sketches are the only
visuals the world is allowed to see. Sketching
Guantanamo features nearly 150 drawings, as well as
photographs of the surrounding facilities that enhance the
artist’s illustrations and her running commentary. It also
includes a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
winner Carol Rosenberg, a member of a reporting team that
won a 2001 Pulitzer Prize. Full color
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