Inside Out: Artocracy in Tunisia

Fresh off his TED Prize win, JR has begun an even-more-revolutionary project titled "INSIDE OUT: Artocracy in Tunisia". His effort features a hundred ordinary Tunisians, posting their images where only those of dictators once hung. The portraits were taken by six Tunisian photographers in collaboration with the renowned French street artist and other international artists. Not surprisingly, the project has been met with resistance by many who either question the motives of the project or simply don't understand its meaning. Nevertheless, the photos are serving their purpose to promote a dialogue about the purpose and meaning of art in this politically volatile region. Read the entire article on Al Jazeera for a more detailed summary of the project and its importance.

Street Art with a Conscience.

Photographer/street artist JR transforms his photography into enormous posters and makes open space photo galleries out of our streets. You may have seen his work pasted onto the Tate Modern in London, or on a wall in your neighborhood if you're lucky.

But his thought process isn't limited to simply pasting big photos on walls, each photo tells a story and interacts with the human population around its' installation to provoke thought and hopefully, change. His work has recently led him to Africa to shoot women in post-conflict zones like Sierra-leone and Liberia, and is currently taking him to India and Asia to do the same.