Today we’d like to share with you a series of collages made by Chris Barker, a professional art director and illustrator from London, who since 2016 has paid tribute to all the famous people who pass away each year. What’s really unique about it is the theme based on the popular album cover by The Beatles, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, released in 1967.
Bored Panda wanted to find out more about this unique project. This is why we got in touch with Chris Barker. We asked him how the idea of paying tribute to celebrities who passed away came about. The author of the images shared with us: “I started doing this in 2016 when there seemed to be a mass exodus of the great and good from this planet, beginning with David Bowie in January and continuing right to the bitter end with George Michael and Carrie Fisher. It had felt like such a monumental, weird year what with Brexit and Trump that I felt I had to do something to remember it by. I released the original montage the day after the Trump election and then almost immediately had to update it when Leonard Cohen died the next day.”
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