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Anyone who is unfamiliar with the work of photographer JR from Paris, France should definitely look him up.

He started off documenting subcultures with a camera he found on a subway and now pastes up his images in large scale on walls and houses all over the world.

JRs Women project was set up to highlight the importance and “Pivotal role” of women in society, traveling to poor areas like the favelas in Rio de Janero, Kenya, and more recently (in March of this year) Delhi, shooting them in their everyday lives and pasting their images in a huge scale on the surrounding buildings, bridges (and interestingly enough an entire train) in their home towns.

His thinking is that by pasting these same images both in their native countries in the streets and in galleries of western countries he can draw attention to and give a voice to those often over looked people, colliding the two worlds in a striking and unmissable way.

Alex Geoffrey
Posted on Friday, 21st of August 2009 Permalink Comment (1)