Street art...literally

The human imagination is a wondrous thing, and we never tire of finding people whose imaginations are just...beyond imagining!

These extraordinary images come from Parisian photographer and street artist JR, who converts entire cities into his own personal (and often illegal) gallery. Borrowing from the idea of the street poster plastered to a building façade, JR makes enormous, building-sized images of the people who live there, creating an effect both stunningly intimate and surprisingly integrated with the street. The people become the place.

In this project from the slums of Rio de Janiero, the women who hold the community together are literally woven into the fabric of the buildings. Beautiful and moving.

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