The use of children as soldiers is perhaps the most destructive yet least discussed aspect of many of the dozens of ongoing conflicts worldwide. While organizations such as Human Rights Watch, UNICEF, Amnesty International and others have been trying to raise awareness, artist Clarence Lin calls our attention to the crisis in stark black-on-white prints. Each print in ‘thewarchildproject‘ displays a silhouette of an armed child soldier - one for each of the thirty-six countries that have been reported as using children on the front lines. With an estimated 300,000 children under the age of 18 serving in both government and rebel forces worldwide, this is both a thought-provoking series of prints and totally worthwhile project to get behind.

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sygyzy Friday, 05.04.07 @ 6:59 pm

Shame that a project that focuses on such an important topic couldn’t find a better way (besides myspace) to convey their message.


mike luce Saturday, 05.05.07 @ 3:20 pm

sygyzy, there is more information available online at the project’s home page, originally linked in the post under ‘Clarence Lin’ or right here.




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