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I'm also a bit confused with the last one. Is the image implying that a gun is useless, cause you'll shoot up all your ammo and still get killed?

I cant answer for Oleg Volk, but i think the pic is saying that you would never see a rape victim on the ground died if she had emptied her pistol into the rapist. The reason is the other guy would be died and she would live.

Hence the words "you will never see this"
 
The third image, the lady holding the AR-15 or similar rifle, The colors are interesting; basically b&w with light tinting of the blouse and jeans. That took some work. Very effective. I've used it in portraiture.
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Yup, thumbs behind the slide, finger on the trigger, and not sure but it looks like the muzzle is covering her knee.
 
Love that last one, Oleg! In all honesty, I think it'd be just as good, if not better, without the bottom tag line (Don't be a victim: go armed). The image, in conjunction with the wording on either side, is both visually communicative and verbally communicative. The image does the job.

I'd also love to see a longer version of the 2nd to last photo, with the leather skirt/pants. :p
 
Don't underestimate Dachshunds, even miniature ones
Our 15 lb. miniature Daschund bullys our 55 lb. Pit, well, he lets her of course, but she does. :)

Great though provoking pics. Nice real world stuff.

Great to have THR back up. I was about to go into withdrawals.
 
The muzzle was NOT covering her knee. I will likely keep this image because it is effective visually. With PT-92, she can get away with the weird grip. I'll re-shoot when possible.
 
I like them all.

I like the looks on the little dog, the eyes looks like they are saying, "I'll watch your back".
 
Oleg, I can't seem to find a repository of your "gun posters"; please advise.
 
Really like the first and last ones both send a strong message (other than the carry in the first panel of the first one that has pointed out several times). Otherwise wouldn't change a thing.
 
Excellent work, again

I might suggest that the dog poster really doesn't need the 'Protection' label. Some people might miss it if they just glance over, but I think it's better without the blatantly obvious.
 
Your ideas and photographic execution are just awesome, Mr. Volk. Thank you for sharing. I took the liberty of posting one on my site and referring back to your blog.

Very well done, as usual.
 
I think the first is the most powerful, but the second is my favorite; there's just something about the image of a woman ready to lower the boom on a predator. I had to think about the message in the last one; taxed my pea sized brain a bit. They are all excellent.
 
The last pic gave me a good idea to give to you...

Smoking pistol barrel, shell casings everywhere. Caption reads: Victim No More.

Or, instead of the smoking gun and the shell casings, a target with the black blown out, same caption.

Man, I am a genius.:neener:
 
I might suggest that the dog poster really doesn't need the 'Protection' label. Some people might miss it if they just glance over, but I think it's better without the blatantly obvious.

+1 in all regards! Propaganda, or influential posters of this sort, work best without overtly stating what they're trying to convey. If you make the suggestion, people will take the suggestion and come to their own conclusion - a conclusion which, since they made it, they are more likely to retain. That is the force which makes propaganda effective.

Take, for instance, this popular propaganda poster from WWII:

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It says, "we can do it" referring explicitly to the war effort, but what it's really making the point of is the strength of a woman, as it was a bit of a hot topic - suffrage for women had only been around since 1920, and "female liberation" in the US was a bit of a big subject for many housewives. So, in effect, the poster is attempting to harness the social desire to the end of a different yet compatible goal, suggesting that by doing one thing the other will be realized.

And then, of course, there is negative propaganda, which feeds off different (negative) social and emotional conditions. IMO, most of Oleg's work is pretty even handed, sharing in both positive and negative imagry, strongness and weakness, in the same poster. Very well done, I think.
 
Not to sound like the only pervert on here, But in the 4rth pic is she wearing a skin tight shirt or is she actually topless. I only ask because my first thought when I saw it was of a naked female victom laying on the ground with something in her hand which you would never see because she would not be naked or a victom if she was to unload on a rapest
 
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