Im not a commodity | China
It features a woman who has been abducted and placed on a shelf like a product for sale. I want to tell you that everyone is not a commodity and we should jointly protest against human trafficking.
It features a woman who has been abducted and placed on a shelf like a product for sale. I want to tell you that everyone is not a commodity and we should jointly protest against human trafficking.
Human trafficking is the trade of humans for various purposes which could be, forced labor, commercial sexual exploitation, or others. People are no longer seen as humans, but as goods, as objects to trade, exchange and collect.
The poster “Gamble with Lives” wants to visualize how traffickers lose the perception of a person as a human being, distilled to only a profitable game. As a metaphor, the life of a person loses any importance, any value and becomes part of a gambling game. Their souls imprinted on the cards lead to the ultimate goal, enrich their traffickers.
The poster depicts an act of violence, by means of two arms, one pulling the other aggressively. The objective to show the attitude of violence and control that one person has over the other in situations of human trafficking.
At the top of the poster it is the quote “trust no shadows after dark” from the song “Shadows After Dark” reminding us not to trust everyone because some people are not what they show. At the bottom, an appeal in the hope of creating awareness and get people to inform themselves and others about this huge issue.
The child is trapped by the net, separated from the outside word, silent tears isolated and helpless, asking for help.
The scale of human trafficking in the world is more rampant than people think. Criminal organizations choose the weakest and innocent people to abuse and exploit them. Behind the trafficking in human beings, there is often a huge transnational criminal group, which is engaged in drug trafficking, gun smuggling, kidnapping, extortion and prostitution.
Human trafficking is digging ones own grave
In the poster design, the elements of handcuffs are combined with the children’s head silhouette, and the visual principle is explored by using the common and mutual relationship of elements. The work skillfully uses images to form heterosexual isomorphism. Children’s head image and handcuffs are combined to create a concise and interesting effect. The works are intended to prohibit the restriction of children’s personal freedom and trafficking in human beings, otherwise they will be subject to due legal sanctions.
Hushed words, bottled up feelings and hardly promised submission, all in a fear of what comes the next day and the day after. Don’t stay silent.