In the sun, in the dark | China

In the sunshine of the city, in the invisible darkness, many ignorant children are abducted. Some of the abductors seem amiable, but in fact they are vicious. Some of them are sold to the mountains; some are forced to beg. They were forced to leave the warm harbor and separate from their parents. They were dragged from the sun to the dark, and then suffered from the pain they should not bear in the dark. They should have lived in the sun like other children and been protected by their families. For them, everything that they should have had seems to have become a delusion.

Salvation | United States

I wanted to do something that depicted both a visual and meaningful representation of reaching out and saving someone in need, so I took inspiration and reference from Michaelangelo’s “Creation of Adam.” I added cracks to the lower hand to give it a stone-like appearance to hint the inherent inescapability of the human trafficking epidemic.

HUMAN TRAFFICKING | Poland

According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), forced labor alone (one component of human trafficking) generates an estimated $150 billion in profits annually; according to a 2014 ILO estimate, 21 million victims are trapped in modern slavery. Ethnic minorities and highly marginalized groups of people are estimated to work in some of the most exploitative and harmful sectors, such as leather tanning, mining, and quarrying. The poster depicts a piggy bank without a hole to save money. This cannot be done when a person is a slave.