The International Reggae Poster Contest and VP Records are pleased to announce the top 100 winners of our limited-edition poster competition on human trafficking, ”Shadows After Dark.”

The competition was launched on November 27th, 2020 to highlight the consequences of human trafficking and advocate for its prevention. The recruiting, transporting, transferring, receiving and harbouring of a person by force, coercion or other means for the purpose of exploitation are all gross violations of human rights. The Jamaica National Task Force Against Trafficking In Persons (NATFATIP) lent its support to this timely competition. Human trafficking is a reality in Jamaica where sexual exploitation and forced labour are the two main forms of human trafficking. NATFATIP’s core emphases are the prevention and suppression of trafficking in persons, the prosecution of offenders, and the protection and provision of assistance to victims of trafficking.

The global response to the call for entries was overwhelming. We received 2190 posters, submitted by 1157 artists from 70 countries: Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sudan, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.

The judging process took place in three stages with three panels. The first consisted of the international designers Yong Huang, China; Hossein Mohammadi Vahidi, Iran; Onur Aşkin, Turkey; Mary Anne Pennington, USA; Lila Skanavi, Greece; Kathiana Cardona OpArt, Venezuela; Rikke Hansen, Denmark; Tomoko Miyagawa, Japan; Donnette Cooper, Jamaica/USA and Naandeyé García Villegas, Mexico.

The second panel comprised the international designers Antonio Castro, USA; Arafat Al-Naim, United Arab Emirates; Byoungil-Sun, Korea; Chaz Maviyane-Davies, Zimbabwe; Claudia Tello, Mexico; Elizabeth Resnick, USA; Mehdi Saeedi, Iran; Susana Machicao, Bolivia; Yossi Lemel, Israel; Zhijun Wang, China.

The final selection of the 10 best posters was made by Aaron Talbert, Vice President Sales and Marketing, VP Records; Michelle Williams, Director, Jamaica, Caribbean and Latin America, VP Records; Ms. Chenee Russell, Ministry of National Security, Jamaica; Ms. Deneise Sealy, Charge d’Affaires, Permanent Mission of Jamaica to the United Nations; Alborosie, reggae music artist; and Carolyn Cooper, Professor Emerita, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica and a board member of the Intl. Reggae Poster Contest. The exhibition dates and venues will be announced shortly.

And the Winners Are:

1st place: Peng Zuo Biao, Hong Kong. Title: Helpless Eyes

2nd place: Vinicio Sejas, Bolivia. Title: Coerced

3rd place: Alice Drueding, United States. Title: Human Trafficking Is Slavery

004 | Victor Barrera | Colombia | No More Fake Smiles

005 | Ana Vigil Escalera Carriles | Mexico | Don’t trample on me

006 | Giulia Di Sanzo | Italy | Nobody Has a Price. Everyone Has a Heart.

007 | Song Xuejun, Song Suejun | China | Return My Freedom

008 | Wei Su | Canada | End Modern Slavery Now

009 | Juan Arredondo | Guatemala | The Hand of Power (La Mano de Poder)

010 | Hadi Golchin | Iran | Don’t Be Ashamed To Ask For Help

011 | Cagdas Inci | Turkey | Tears In the Sea

012 | Betha Almanfaluthi | Indonesia | Entangled In Modern Slavery

013 | Jianfei Lu | China | Stop Human Trafficking

014 | Aleksandra Runde | Latvia | Helping Hands

015 | Patrycja Longawa | Poland | STOP HUMAN TRAFFICKING 2

016 | Raqee Najmuldeen | Iraq | I’m Not a Machine

017 | Yunsheng Liao | China | Dark Silence

018 | Carmit Haller | United States | Stop Human Trafficking

019 | Yanghong Wei | China | Struggle

020 | Andrew Cuellar | United States | Faux Promises

021 | Kai Xu | China | Stop Human Trafficking

022 | Vahid Fanodi | Iran | Humanoid Wolves

023 | Alejandro Rivera-Plata | Colombia | Snatched

024 | Jade Hernandez | United States | False Promises

025 | Jianfei Lu | China | Selling Women

026 | Asimina Palatianou | Greece | Shoe

027 | Marco Natolli | Italy | Crying Matrioska

028 | Afsaneh Rezaei | Iran | Human Trafficking

029 | XuWei Zhang | China | Moving Shackles

030 | May Algazi | Israel | Trafficking Women

031 | Ehsan Ghaseminia | Iran | Stop Human trafficking 02

032 | Yanaisy Puentes Cruz | Cuba | Trust Not

033 | Lei Wu | China | Stop Human Trafficking

034 | Μanos Stamatinos | Greece | Not Just a Piece Of Meat!

035 | Deniz Yuksel | Turkey | Inalienable Rights

036 | Yanan Shen | China | Put a Price On

037 | Zui Tao | China | Beware of Human Trafficking

038 | Tianwen Yu | China | Prohibition Of Child Labor

039 | Valerie Štecová | Czech Republic | Intimate Evil

040 | Kaldor Kata | Hungary | NO – Human Trafficking 2

041 | Zeynep Ipek Demir | Turkey | Chain Swing

042 | Chen Xin | China | EMPTY

043a | Ding Wenjing | China | If Trafficking Is Not Stopped

043b | Ding Wenjing | China | If Trafficking Is Not Stopped 2

044 | Yijie Zhang | China | A Human Life Is Not An Object

045 | Azam Safari | Iran | Stop Human Trafficking

046 | Vinicio Sejas | Bolivia | Trapped

047 | Chen Xin | China | The Profit

048 | Yanghong Wei | China | The Shadow Of Children

049 | Yunsheng Liao | China | Stop Human Trafficking

050 | Vinicio Sejas | Bolivia | Not An Object

051 | Robert Young | Canada | Slaves On Sale

052 | Yanghong Wei | China | Human Trafficking

053 | Wojciech Osuchowski | Czech Republic | Organs

054 | Liu Yu-Ting | Taiwan | Traffick Jam

055 | Yumeng Yan | China | Trafficking In Women

056 | Ruifeng Hong | China | Trapped Hope

057 | Kai Huang | China | You Can See a Man’s Face But Not His Heart

058 | Wojciech Zatorski | Poland | STOP

059 | Lujun Wu | China | Stop Human Trafficking

060 | Lin Xin Kai | Taiwan | Concern

061 | Ivan Kashlakov | Bulgaria | Human Beings Are Not For Sale

062 | Mingliang Li | China | Women Are Not Commodities

063 | Mitra Mohamadi | Iran | Missing

064 | Liu Wei | China | Stop the Traffic

065 | Tamar Leibowitz | Israel | The Dark Side Of Chocolate

066 | Hossein Abdi | Iran | Organ Trafficking

067 | Huihan Yang | China | Darkness

068 | Eduardo Davit | Uruguay | Breaking Chains

069 | Kleyner Arley Nogueira | Brazil | Not a Doll

070 | Furkan Elibol | Turkey | Light At the End Of the Sea

071 | Umut Durmusoglu | Turkey | Borders and Life Jacket

072 | Lin Wen Yin | Taiwan | Stop Human Trafficking

073 | Shouwei Chen Shouwei Chen | China | “Moldy Candy”

074 | Nabil Mendjeli | Algeria | HELLp

075 | TingFang Yu | China | Candy and Traps

076 | ChunLin Zeng | China | Commodity Children

077 | Jorge E. Martinez | United States | Barbed Wire As Stockings

078 | Cheng Yang | China | stop human trafficking

079 | Anna Kniejewska | Poland | Euro

080 | Christoph Stettler | Switzerland | Stop Human Trafficking

081 | Tisca Jagtap | India | Mankind

082 | Wojciech Zatorski | Poland | Trust No Shadow

083 | Zuzanna Lewandowska | Poland | Stop Human Trafficking

084 | Liran Yi | China | Viper

085 | Cinthya Guadalupe GonzÁlez Wong | Mexico | The Silence Of Slavery

086 | Luz Barrera | Mexico | Don’t Take the Money

087 | Gokhan Danacioglu | Turkey | Please Help Us

088 | XuWei Zhang | China |SOS

089 | Kaled Avila | Mexico | Not Valid

090 | Eric Boelts | United States | It’s About The Money

091 | Maneesha Warkade | India | Help Her

092 | Fu Yongkang | China | Sugar-Coated Bullet

093 | Aulia Lukman Hakim | Indonesia | Not For Sale

094 | Hsieh I Chen | Taiwan | I Want To Go Home

095 | Teh Sze Yen | Malaysia | Child Sex Trafficking

096 | Elif Zeynep Kutlu | Turkey | Sold Out

097 | Elwell jobs | China | Abuse

098 | Shu Zhi Yun | China | Homeward Bound

099 | Christoph Stettler | Switzerland | End Human Trafficking

100 | Ilkim Guven | Turkey | Hope

 

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