This required some investigation, after some googling around I discovered the artist goes by the name of JR and this ‘piece’ was part of a bigger project called women are heroes. He has taken pictures of women from Kibera and printed up their photos on huge tarpaulins to cover the roofs of the shacks. He also covered a train in photos so when the train passes at one point the eyes line up with the smiles on the side of the mound. This guy likes taking pictures of people who otherwise go unnoticed then he sneaky sneaky plasters their photographs massive somewhere it can’t be ignored. Inspired. You can see more photos on his website www.jr-art.net or www.28millimetres.com/women/. He’s done a lot of other interesting projects across Africa, India, South America and on the Gaza strip. Check it out!
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Wow! How long have the pictures been there, is it the first time you've seen them?
I wonder what the people in Kibera think of them or if they can recognise who they are. Must have taken ages to get the parts in the right place for when the trains come through, how did they do it????
Looked at Kibera on the website, its so huge!!!!!
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Yep 3 square kilometres of slum, it takes about 45 minutes to walk from one project to the other. The pictures have been there since february this year but it doesn't look the same as in the pictures anymore because some of the tarps have been nicked.
Ye it was the first time i saw them the other day because it was the first time i had walked through that part of Kibera.
interesting!
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