thewarchildproject

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.