Layouts in Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martínez’s “Wake”

Matthew Teutsch
6 min readJul 9, 2021

Last post, I wrote about the ways that Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martínez’s Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts uses the juxtaposition of text and image to highlight the continued ways that past impacts the present. Today, I want to continue that discussion and expand it some by focusing specifically on some of Martínez’s layouts. From the opening of Wake to its conclusion, the ways that…

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Matthew Teutsch

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