The French photographer JR has an exhibition entitled Inside Out at the Pompidou Centre Paris until September. He has set up a photo booth which takes a black and white portraits and then prints them to A0 size. The poster floats down through the entrance hall. The idea is that you then paste your poster up somewhere in the world. Isabelle, who is studying in Paris stopped by and queued for an hour to have her portrait taken in the machine. A bindi is superimposed digitally on the photo. The woman operating the machine was called away, and left Isabelle to take her own photo. She wasn't sure where the lens was, and was captured whilst still trying to work it out!
You can upload your own black and white portrait and receive a poster to paste up by going to
http://www.insideoutproject.net/
The point of the project is to challenge everyone to use black and white photographic portraits to discover, reveal and share the untold stories and images of people around the world. He always works in poster size images and his projects are often political. Read more about him at
http://www.dragolab.com/en/books/catalogue/wrinkles-of-the-city-shanghai
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