Ted Prize Winner 2011- Meet JR

JR - TED Prize Winner 2011
Photographer and street artist JR created a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. Huge black-and-white photographs, printed on waterproof vinyl, on the built environment.
The New Your Times Called him a Robin Hood-like hero.
"I would like to bring art to improbable places, create projects so huge with the community that they are forced to ask themselves questions." JR

INSIDE OUT is a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work.

Inside Out Project
http://insideoutproject.net
http://twitter.com/InsideOutProj
http://facebook.com/InsideOutProject

TED
http://tedprize.org
http://tedprize.com
http://twitter.com/TEDNews
http://facebook.com/TED

Video Credits
Post Prod Company: OTRA
Art director: Guillaume Cagniard
Editor: Hugo Caruana
Post producer: Cyril Bordesoulle
Music by Massive Attack
Sound mix by les Kouz

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• Ted Prize Winner 2010
• JR
• street art
• graffiti
• photography
• photograffeur
• portraits