JR winner of the 2011 TED Prize

JR’s career as a photographer began when he found a camera in the Paris subway. In his first major project, in 2001 and 2002, JR toured and photographed street art around Europe, tracking the people who communicate their messages to the world on walls. His first large-format postings began appearing on walls in Paris and Rome in 2003. His first book, Carnet de rue par JR, about street artists, appeared in 2005.

In 2006, he launched “Portrait of a Generation,” huge-format portraits of suburban “thugs” from Paris’ notorious banlieues, posted on the walls of the bourgeois districts of Paris. This illegal project became official when Paris City Hall wrapped its own building in JR’s photos.

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As he is anonymous and doesn’t explain his huge full-frame portraits of people making faces, JR leaves the space empty for an encounter between the subject/protagonist and the passerby/ interpreter.(source TED)

LINK to his homepage. Check it out: lots of images and projects.

Manhattan 4.33pm

A daydream to remind me of the joy of the New York skyline. "Daydreams" is one of my ongoing projects incorporating a series of observational thoughts. Manhattan 4.33pm is the latest short film made with three photographic stills which I brought to life (35 secs).

'Manhattan: 4.33pm' has been selected as a finalist in Raindance’s Welcome to the Extraordinary competition.


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Shinichi Maruyama - Water Sculpture

Japanese photographer Shinchi Maruyama throws water which are then photographed with high speed cameras to create fluid sculptures.

"As a young student, I often wrote Chinese characters in sumi ink. I loved the nervous, precarious feeling of sitting before an empty white page, the moment just before my brush touched the paper. I was always excited to see the unique result of each new brushing." (from artist's statement)

LINK to his homepage with images, videos and articles

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