"Women are Heroes"

TRAILER " WOMEN ARE HEROES",
Uploaded by JR.

JR got his start as a photographer after finding a camera on the Paris metro. His interest in vulnerable populations - women, victims of war, the disenfranchised - led him to affix large-scale portraits of the faceless to building facades, walls, rooftops, buses and trains in some of the most impoverished parts of the world. He works uninvited, creating illegal photo exhibitions that engage the community and encourage discussion.
For the project Face 2 Face, JR mounted enormous portraits of Israelis and Palestinians facing each other in the opposing territories, forcing unavoidable daily contact between laborers engaged in the same line of work. He plans to return to the fraught region with a project called "Hand in Hand."
In 2008, he focused on women as targets of conflict in his Women Are Heroes project, traveling to Sierra Leone, Kenya, Sudan, Liberia and the slums of Brazil, where violence and repression are a part of daily life.
JR's film for the Women are Heroes project received a standing ovation at Cannes -