Turning the World Inside Out

A while back someone sent me a link to a video about a photographer who's one wish was to turn to world inside out. He goes by JR and he was a 2011 TED Prize Winner. JR is a photographer from France and he decided to start a project where he travelled around the world and took photographs of people and posted them extremely large outside on walls or stairs or whatever he could. Each one of his projects focused on something different and was absolutely amazing. Take a few minutes and watch this video, just click on "Watch the Talk" http://www.tedprize.org/jr-2011-ted-prize-winner/

JR also wants to other people around the world to join in on this project and I am going to participate as soon early as summer if school allows me to. A good friend of mine helps at an after school community program in Reservoir Hill and she asked if I would like to teach the kids a little bit about photography. The last time I was in the neighborhood was to photograph an event that she had put on for the community and the kids were fascinated with my camera and just wanted to take a million pictures. Of course I said I would love to and hope to make something happen over the summer. I think JR's project would be perfect for this and I hope to get pictures of all the kids and a photo that each kid took and post it all over the neighborhood. Here is a link to his global project http://www.insideoutproject.net/#@section=home