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Projects tagged "photography"

Women Are Heros
Practitioner:
JR
Date:
Oct 1 2009

Film correlating to the project of the same name by JR - a french street artist who works with large scale photography and wheat-paste.

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WOMEN ARE HEROES /
Practitioner:
JR
Date:
Jan 1 2009

The Women Are Heroes project has various steps in Africa, in Kenya, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Sudan.

In January 2009, 2000 square meters of rooftops are covered with photos of the eyes and faces of the women of Kibera, in Kenya. Most of the women have their own photos on their own rooftop and for the first time the material used is water resistant so that the photo itself will protect the fragile houses in the heavy rain season.

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PAWA 254
Practitioner:
Boniface Mwangi
Date:
Feb 26 2013

Kenyan-based photographer Boniface Mwangi has captured his country's political and civic turmoil since the controversial presidential election in 2007. The violence and disorder he witnesses daily motivated him to take action, setting up a creative hub for activism called PAWA 254.

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Patterns as Priorities: Aerial Supermax Prison Photos Echo Shapes of Suburbia
Practitioner:
Christoph Gielen
Date:
Apr 5 2013

by Pete Brook

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Face 2 Face
Practitioner:
JR
Date:
Mar 4 2007

In 2007, anonymous French photographer JR embarked on the Face2Face project - the largest unauthorized photo exhibition ever conceived. JR and his collaborator Marco engaged Israelis and Palestinians employed in the same profession to be photographed making funny faces. They then enlarged the photos to grand proportions and wheat pasted juxtaposed portraits onto both sides of the security Separation Wall and in surrounding cities.

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Anti-Abuse Ad
Practitioner:
Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk (ANAR Foundation)
Date:
May 15 2013

Spanish organization the ANAR Foundation (Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk) recently released a campaign that makes powerful use of photography, only they’re taking advantage of the process of lenticular printing to send an offer of help to abused children without alerting their abusers, even if they’re walking together.

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American Prison Perpestives
Practitioner:
Christoph Gielen
Date:
Apr 11 2010

With American Prison Perspectives, Gielen intends tol illustrate how prison complex designs reflect the politics, economic priorities and anxieties of society, yet there would be so much more to say with pictures inside the prisions.

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Fully Automated Nikon (Object/Objection/Objectivity)
Practitioner:
Laurie Anderson
Date:
Apr 16 1973

"I decided to shoot pictures of men who made comments to me on the street. I had always hated this invasion of my privacy and now I had the means of my revenge. As I walked along Houston Street with my fully automated Nikon, I felt armed, ready. I passed a man who muttered ‘Wanna fuck?’ This was standard technique: the female passes and the male strikes at the last possible moment forcing the woman to backtrack if she should dare to object.

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Eric Bouvet’s Chechnya On Stage
Practitioner:
Theatre company Map
Date:
Mar 15 2013

"On Friday, March 15, 2013, for the launch of the 20th edition of the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents, the theatre company Map performed Jusqu’au bout, a play directed by David Ropars based on a text by the photojournalist Eric Bouvet. It was a great success! The monologue was given a magnificent interpretation by the actor Jean-Pierre Morice.

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The art of activism: Thapelo Motsumi & the Umuzi Photo Club
Practitioner:
Umuzi Photo Club
Date:
May 14 2012
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