JR in Cape Town

JR, a French street artist who recently won a TED prize, was one of the artists who inspired me to apply for this grant in the first place. I first came across his work and mentioned it on this blog while working in Kibera during the summer of 2009.


The manner in which he had taken incredibly expressive photos of local women and worked them into the slum environment creatively addressed the issue of how to empower people to begin to exercise ownership over their built environment.  Beautiful and activist!

One of the many JR prints I've seen thus far.

JR has plastered works up all over the world.  I had heard that he had done some work in Cape Town. for his Inside Out Project, but didn't expect to actually find any.  Lucky for me, I've been running into it just about everywhere!


Check out his TED talk here.