Campaign Poster & Photography- Amnesty International Anti-War Campaign
2016 | Digital Photography
This is a project from college in 2016 where we were given a brief to produce content for a human rights campaign with Amnesty International. This was my first photography based project which includes the projection of a painting made to mimic the 70s psychedelic art over the human body to represent the hippie movement in the 1960s/70s, who famously protested against the Vietnam War in 1969.
Coming across Wes Wilson's work at the time, a graphic designer who created amazing psychedelic posters. I wanted to incorporate this psychedelia with the anti-war campaign, to bring back the hippie movement to the modern day. I pushed myself out of my comfort zone after failing to produce my own psychedelic poster that I was happy with.
After a weekend away I came back into college and decided this wasn’t going to fail, I pulled my socks up and decided to try something new and digital with the painting so it could be put to good use and not end up to be a waste of time. I borrowed a projector from college and cleared out a dark cupboard which I used as the photography studio. I projected my painting onto my class mates to create a surreal image, playing around with the focus of the projector to get a different effect. Bringing the human element back into the campaign and using my painting in a digital experimental way resulted in some really effective photos for the poster. This was my modern take on Make Love. Not War. Futuristic Hippie vibes had come to life.
