Motion Design & Digital Art

Migrants / Refugees

Double-exposure portraits for a social-awareness campaign — the faces of the displaced fused with fire, rubble and the roads they're forced to travel.

RoleMotion Design, Digital Art, Compositing
ToolsAfter Effects · Illustrator · Photoshop · Premiere Pro
ThemeMigration, Human Rights
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The brief

Migrants and refugees are among the groups most vulnerable to trafficking and exploitation, both during their journey and upon arrival in the destination countries.

Each portrait is built as a double exposure — a face held still while fire, wreckage, and the roads of displacement move through it — turning individual faces into a single, wordless account of what it means to be uprooted.

Migrants / Refugees Marco Vargas
Selected frames
Double exposure of two men's faces layered with rubble and wreckage
What's left standing, carried in the face
Double exposure of a woman in a hooded shawl layered with a burning forest
A forest on fire, behind her eyes
Double exposure of two hooded figures layered with rubble and exposed wiring
Two figures, one ruin
Double exposure of two children in colorful headscarves holding a bowl of grain
The next generation, waiting
Double exposure of a truck crowded with people layered with a burning forest
The road out

Among the most vulnerable yet the least seen.

Campaign statement