Propaganda Poster – European Refugee Crisis
by Andrew Atencia and Peter Moore
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Some photos/posters we used for inspiration:
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The final product:
The photo we used was taken by Mstyslav Chernov. It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
For our poster, we wanted to emphasize the humanity and reality of the refugees in and immigrating to Europe. We believe that one of the biggest problems with the refugee crisis is the separation between the average person and people that are immigrating from these war-torn areas. Because of this separation, it is easy for the average person to think of refugees as numbers and not people, and to not think about it as a debate of human rights but rather about dealing with a problem. For this reason, we decided we wanted to use the portrait of a person, especially a child, because we thought that would be the best way to convey the humanity of the situation. We used the stained glass effect on the face of the child because we thought it made the portrait as well as the poster as a whole look more interesting. The text and positioning of it was somewhat based on Shephard Fairey’s “Hope” poster, as well as his “We the People” posts. Overall, we were inspired by Shephard Fairey and our issue in general to make a poster of a portrait with our title and subtitle on the bottom of the poster.
