DIVIDED CITY

Divided City

THE KOURTAJME COLLECTIVE DENY A CITY THEY BARELY KNOW.

The picturesque Paris of beauty and high culture is a foreign city to Kourtrajmé. They rarely see it, and they won’t show it. But they are Parisians. Yes, Parisians, driven by the city as they know it, a city of decay, desolation and neglect, but a city of people the authorities would rather forget.

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Categories Film Politics Photography Tags Art JR Kourtrajme Paris Photography

By on 13/8/08

FACES ON WALLS

Faces On Walls

FEW CAN SAY AS MUCH WITH AN IMAGE AS JR.

He’s called JR and he’s French. Nothing special there. The thing that strikes me about JR, though, and the world it seems, is that few can use pictures of people with the kind of impact he does. He blows photographs up big on the streets, pictures of people the world would otherwise forget. And he does it to provoke.

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Categories Art Photography Tags Art JR Photography Street Art

By on 24/7/08

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