Anonymous artist 'JR' takes engagement to the max. A worthy winner of the infamous TED Prize (awarded to an individual who 'wishes big enough to change the world'), JR has created a large-scale participatory art project that uses photography to enable the public to discover, reveal and share the untold stories and images of people around the world.JR and his team have travelled around the globe, taking black and white photographs of locals and digitally transforming these into posters. The posters are then sent back to the community to be placed around the town, and the locations for these exhibitions are limitless, ranging from abandoned buildings, to the tops of trains, to crumbling village walls.
JR's pervasive art spreads uninvited on buildings of Parisian slums, on walls in the Middle East, on broken bridges in Africa and in favelas in Brazil, and people in the communities featured in the exhibit, those who often live with the bare minimum, find themselves at the centre of each display. Elderly women, for example, become models for a day, and even kids turn into artists for a week.
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