Meet the world!

A 25-years-old Brazilian by the name of Icario Doria is part of a team made up of five members who are working for the magazine "Grande Reportagem" from Lisbon, Portugal, who have started a campaign named "Meet the world" based on very interesting interpretations of different countries' flags, a campaign meant to increase awareness on multiple very important issues around the world that has widely spread via email.

Here is what he had to say about the campaign:

" The magazine Revista Grande Reportagem is a Hard Journalism magazine, on the same line as the Times. The idea was to bring across the concept that the magazine offers profound journalism about topics of real importance to the world of today.

This is how we thought of the concept Meet the World.

We started to research relevant, global, and current facts and, thus, came up with the idea to put new meanings to the colours of the flags. We used real data taken from the websites of Amnesty International and the UNO.

The campaign has been running in Portugal since January 2005. There are eight flags that portray very current topics like the division of opinions about the war in Iraq in the United States, the violence against women in Africa, the social inequality in Brazil, the drug trafficking in Columbia, Aids and malaria in Angola, etc."

And now, the pictures:

AngolaBrazil

BurkinaChinaColumbiaEuropean UnionSomaliaUSA

I think it is a wonderful campaign that beautifully captures the (painful) truth of the fates of people in some countries and their relations with the world.

It is a great effort that we all should applaud, and perhaps we should help by revealing this information to as many as we can. Bravo to the guys over at "Revista Grande Reportagem"!

- source: BrazilianArtists -