photo copyright: sebastian g [paris, france]
This year's TED prize winner, JR has opened his global portrait project for everyone to participate. JR (and recently a small team) have taken thousands of portraits and have plastered them in places such as Brazil and Cambodia.
These portraits are known to be huge: up to 20 feet in height.
This aim of the project is to create a visual platform of individual voices. JR wishes to release the stories of those we don't hear. Our faces, our stories, our community.
You are all now invited to upload your portrait and share a personal story on the Inside Out website. Within weeks, you will receive your portrait as a block and white poster, ready to be posted. It is quite fun meandering through all the profiles and images of this project. I was especially taken by the image above, though there are currently over 8,000 participants. I look forward to being one of them. Perhaps you should consider also.
And you know, it takes a certain kind of confidence to participate in this project. I don't think you are the only one that might find it strange (or somewhat vulnerable) to paste an enormous image of yourself in the world. Though, this is the thing about community art. It is indeed a little bit about you. Though ultimately, your little bit joins all the other little bits, and the camera pans back, and you are able to see, not your face, but rather something else entirely.
Then you are surprised. And moved.
Inside Out Project Website
JR's photographic website
A short film about the project:
These portraits are known to be huge: up to 20 feet in height.
This aim of the project is to create a visual platform of individual voices. JR wishes to release the stories of those we don't hear. Our faces, our stories, our community.
You are all now invited to upload your portrait and share a personal story on the Inside Out website. Within weeks, you will receive your portrait as a block and white poster, ready to be posted. It is quite fun meandering through all the profiles and images of this project. I was especially taken by the image above, though there are currently over 8,000 participants. I look forward to being one of them. Perhaps you should consider also.
And you know, it takes a certain kind of confidence to participate in this project. I don't think you are the only one that might find it strange (or somewhat vulnerable) to paste an enormous image of yourself in the world. Though, this is the thing about community art. It is indeed a little bit about you. Though ultimately, your little bit joins all the other little bits, and the camera pans back, and you are able to see, not your face, but rather something else entirely.
Then you are surprised. And moved.
Inside Out Project Website
JR's photographic website
A short film about the project: