find your voice project

The purpose of this project was to create a work based on a social or political issue we are passionate about. I chose human trafficking as my topic; an issue I have learned a lot about through my aunt’s company, which put on shows about social issues to draw attention to the problem. The way I depicted this is by making two young girls; one normal and one that has been seemingly ‘trafficked’. The trafficked girl has baggy, small clothes and I added some cut images from the reference photo I used to humanize her in a way, and finally I added in a price tag, to emphasize the point. In the background, I added articles I found online about trafficking and cut magazine letters to add writing. Along the bottom reads “Sex Trafficking: The New American Slavery” which was the headline of an article I found and thought was so powerful, I had to include it. To the left of the figures, I wrote out “She Has a Name”, which was the name of my aunt’s play about human trafficking. Although the product changed drastically from my initial idea, I think this was the best way to present the image.