This is an illustration I did to raise awareness about the issue of human trafficking. This issue is so complicated, and so important that I really wanted to give it the attention it deserves. However, it was difficult to focus the concept to something that would communicate to the general public. I originally wanted the image to speak about the deception and entrapment of people when they leave there country for ours. I wanted to say that this entrapment is often not immediately visible to us, and is often psychological. However, I decided to focus the concept to something more specific. To do this I used the metaphor of drug trafficking.
Like drugs, victims of trafficking are highly valuable; valuable but not valued. Their 'captors' make so much money by literally selling them like commodities. This image shows the helplessness of the victims and the darkness of the issue. Human beings packaged and sold, right where we live and work, all around us, unnoticed.
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