It wasn’t the storm that killed him. It was bureaucracy — the quiet kind that signs papers and calls it compassion. He asked for a bed. The system offered paperwork. By dawn, he was a headline — another statistic frozen mid-sentence.
We used no actors, no glamour, no mercy. Every face in the series was treated like evidence — lit like confession, framed like truth. The portraits were designed to haunt, not inspire. Red for rejection. White for surrender. Black for the silence between them.
The real sin wasn’t homelessness. It was indifference. This campaign wasn’t created to comfort donors; it was meant to accuse them. Typography became a verdict. Each poster, a tombstone carved in Sans. There was no call to action — only a moral autopsy.
By the time the posters went up, the temperature had already dropped below mercy. But people noticed. Donations spiked. Shelters reopened. For a brief moment, empathy thawed. And maybe that’s all design can do — not resurrect the dead, but make the living feel responsible for them.