This is my second poster. I thought about the helping people who is struggling. Human trafficking is a serious issue. I thought it is like drowning in the water. You’re trying to survive but it’s taking you down. But a help -like a life saver- can save you from that water. So just hold on for help.
Where we can not see,darkness is creeping down.
She could be any of your daughter, if you keep silent and do nothing.
Millions of children around the world are happily playing war games with cheap plastic toys, manufactured in a mass prodcution process.
In my work I have chosen to present a toy soldier, taken from a popular and innocent children game.
This toy soldier represent thousands of children which are serving as soldiers in armed conflicts around the world.
“These boys and girls, some as young as 8 years old, serve in government forces and armed opposition groups” (Human Rights Watch.org).
The shadow after the darkness is hanging over the heart of every mother who is unfortunately trafficked. In the darkness, it seems that there are countless pairs of men’s hands coming to them. They feel desperate and struggle hard. They were forced to scream and cry for help. Only the tears and the distant cry were muffled in the silent night.
We are not uncommon to see “404 Error”. 404 Error Page means the server could not find the requested website. So I use it to stand for people who suffer from human trafficking. They lose their names, human rights and dignity, like never alive in the world. Moreover, “404 Error” can appear in any browser. Just like human trafficking, No matter where it is, it always happens. Maybe the crisis is lurking by your side. Thus, please save these people and face the problem immediately.
I wanted to show that people aren’t just things that you can buy and use.
“A Hidden Crime” is a poster that emulate a Horror Movie Keyart. In this case that blurry image of the person behind the surface communicate what is going on now. It is a way of create awareness of this global crisis: Human Trafficking.
The “Fresh meat” poster was designed aiming at comparing the simple act of buying/selling a piece of meat with the human trafficking. Putting side by side human and meat, it is conveyed the idea of how easy and banal something that is completely wrong can be to those who do it.
The human figure has no gender since this can happen to anyone. The typography was carefully chosen to make reference to the STOP signs and allude to the danger.
With this poster I wanted to create awareness of the child labour part of human trafficking. Children are being lured away from their families and homes by tempting offers of money and stability. When the children arrive they only find relentless labour and poor working conditions. My poster tries to visualise the children who are bound to their labour (in this case a sewing machine in a sweatshop) and are unable to go to their families.