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The street art of JR

Posted by Sebastian Buck 1 day ago
The-street-art-of-JR the favela is so lawless that journalists are banned and no NGO operates there. Undeterred, JR simply drove himself to the centre of the shanty town and started chatting about what he wanted to do to anyone who approached him. He had been drawn to the favela by news reports concerning the murder of three innocent young men caught up in the...
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Tags: art, Art and design, Brazil, Culture, France, JR, Kenya, photography, Street Art
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The GOOD 100: JR

Posted by GOOD, Sebastian Buck 5 months ago
the-good-100-jr Raising Profiles Looking at one hillside favela outside Rio de Janeiro in the summer of 2008, you would have seen its residents staring back at you—their portraits covered dozens of its crumbling houses. It was the work of a photographer and street artist known as JR, who, since 2004, has been waging a guerrilla campaign...
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Tags: art, GOOD 100, JR, Street Art
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