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MullenLowe London launches new Samaritans campaign with portraits by photographer Nadav Kandar

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Date
24 February 2016
An advertisement for Samaritans featuring a person with an afro and beard seen from behind against a pale pink background. Large text above reads “I’m going to be alright. It’s not so bad spending a lot of time alone.” Below the image, text reads “We don’t just hear you, we listen.” A small card in the corner displays the Samaritans logo and a free phone number.
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Samaritans: MullenLowe London & Nadav Kander

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Samaritans: MullenLowe London & Nadav Kander

A poster for Samaritans featuring a person with curly hair seen from behind against a pale green background. Text above reads “Please don’t worry about it, you guys help people with worse problems than me.” Below the image, a caption reads “We don’t just hear you, we listen.” A small white card in the corner displays the Samaritans logo and a free phone number.
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Samaritans: MullenLowe London & Nadav Kander

Communications agency MullenLowe London has launched its We Listen campaign for Samaritans with faceless portraits shot by photographer Nadav Kandar. Launched yesterday across digital, posters and railway media, the campaign is expected to run for two years.

Nadav’s portraits reveal only the back of the posters’ subjects and accompany coloured copy that highlights the hidden messages behind people’s claims that they are “fine”. Looking to refocus Samaritans’ identity as “expert listeners,” MullenLowe’s campaign has been launched to communicate the charity’s “we don’t just hear you, we listen” message.

You can support the #WeListen campaign by following Samaritans on Twitter.

A poster for Samaritans shows a person from behind, looking away from the camera against a pale yellow background. Large text above reads “I think I’m going to be ok. It does feel rubbish losing a job, but not desperate.” Below the image, a slogan reads “We don’t just hear you, we listen.” A small box in the corner provides the Samaritans logo and a free phone number.
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Samaritans: MullenLowe London & Nadav Kander

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Samaritans: MullenLowe London & Nadav Kander

A poster for Samaritans featuring a person with red hair and a beard seen from behind. Above them, text reads “I’m alright with being single I guess. It’s not ideal for the kids, but they seem to be coping.” Below the image, a second line reads “We don’t just hear you, we listen.” A small box in the corner provides the Samaritans logo and a free phone number.
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Samaritans: MullenLowe London & Nadav Kander

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Milly Burroughs

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Milly Burroughs (@millyburroughs2.0) is a Berlin-based writer and editor specialising in art, design and architecture. Her work can be read in magazines such as AnOther, Dazed, TON, Lux, Elephant, Hypebeast and many more, as well as contributing to books on architecture and design from publishers Gestalten and DK. She is It’s Nice That’s Berlin correspondent.

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