boxes | United States

For my iteration of “Shadows After Dark” to raise awareness on human trafficking, I wanted to focus on the inhumanity of the transporting and selling of people as if they were products you could pick up at the store. I chose to illustrate a girl being trapped in a box as she’s being shipped from one location to another. No human should be trapped and treated in this way.

nameless person | Taiwan

Enlarging the fingerprints into a labyrinth, with a child in the middle, means that finding these missing children is as difficult as finding an unknown destination in a dense labyrinth, and there are too many victims in human trafficking incidents. The child is like a person without a name, just one of the missing persons.

Human Life Doesn’t Fit In The Box | Turkey

Every person has the right to a peaceful life. Unfortunately, the number of people who do not have the means to hold on to life in different geographies of the world, who have to go to other countries illegally, either of their own will or by force, is increasing. According to the United Nations report published in 2020, 50% of human trafficking is sexual exploitation. 67% of this rate is women and 25% is little girls. In addition, these migrations made by illegal methods are carried out in disregard of human life. In this poster work, it is expressed that human life is packaged like an inanimate object and abducted by non-humane methods and is supported with the slogan “Human life doesn’t fit in the box”.