YOU ARE NOT FOR SALE - AN ANTI-TRAFFICKING PROPAGANDA

Disclaimer: I've already assigned my intellectual property rights of this posters to IOM Vietnam. Any usage of the posters (exhibiting, printing, selling,...) should be accepted at their discretion.

This poster is my participation in a design competition about Anti-trafficking organized by IOM Vietnam. In highlighting the message "YOU ARE NOT FOR SALE" - which is also the name of aformentioned competition, I chose to illustrate two most common tricks that are used by traffickers to lure victims: Forced marriage.

The poster depicted a scene of exchanging engagement rings - a tradition recognized and practiced all over the world. However, instead of engagement ring, the groom put on his bride a price tag, which also means he is assessing his partner by selling her. There is also a chain linking to the bride's engagement bracelet in order to foreshadow a gloomy slavelike future awaiting for her after getting sold. 

The black and white hands can be accounted for by the stereotype of good, innocent side and bad, immoral side.