Behind Cosmo UK’s Honor Killings Protest “Cover” Photograph
By Conor Risch
This mock-up of a Cosmopolitan UK cover features an image from a series of photographs created by artist Erin Mulvehill.
Last week a mock Cosmopolitan UK cover that sought to protest honor killings drew attention and praise online. Honor killing is a horrific practice in which family members kill one of their own, often a daughter, who is perceived to have brought shame on a family.
The Cosmo UK mock cover depicts what appears to be a woman suffocating. In images of the cover circulated by the magazine and Leo Burnett Change, the agency that designed the cover, the issue is sealed …read more
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