Cry for Help: 36 Scam-Emails from Africa

07"A Cry For Help" is a series of brilliant vignettes illustrating 36 of Wagenbreth's favourite scam emails from Africa. He uses a variety of artistic styles, from woodblock and linocut prints to computerised images, and all visualise in tragicomic manner just how easily a weapon of globalisation (the internet) can be turned against its creators. Henning Wagenbreth is an award-winning illustrator and professor of Visual Communication at the Berlin Academy of Arts (Universität der Künste in Berlin).01Henning Wagenbreth, 1962 in Eberswalde geboren, lebt in Berlin, zeichnet Plakate und illustriert Bücher und Zeitungen. Seit 1964 ist er Professor für Visuelle Kommunikation an der Hochschule der Künste Berlin.