Shopping basket | Switzerland
Man is not a commodity.
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.
The bright and colorful lives are snatched away by the dark shadows of human traffickers. As if one goes out in the dark, the demonic human traffickers will pull them toward the shadow and will never come back.
The poster is combined with an umbrella and a guitar, with a woman’s face and tears under the umbrella, symbolizing the protection of girls and the fight against human trafficking.
A broken mirror and words mean a dangerous situation for those who are being trafficked.
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.
Through labour exploitation, children are kept in cages, confined and desperate by the loss of their freedom,
and begin to yearn for freedom and redemption, thus drawing attention to the social problem of human trafficking.
Be careful of the person you trust, be careful, he may be a trafficker.
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”.