go see: “david adjaye: making public buildings”

the studio museum in harlem has a brilliant show featuring the work of tanzania-born, england-educated, ghanaian architect david adjaye. i was really inspired by the format of the presentation where the conceptual ideas that drove the design, materials used are laid out together with scale models of the buildings. there is also a side presentation adjaye’s ongoing personal project to document the architecture of all 53 of africa’s capitals. cool.

portrait of a generation

after the riots of 2004 photographer/street artist JR decided to visit the banlieues or ghettos that ring paris to take upclose portraits of the young men and women who live there. he took the results and made poster size images that he pasted up around paris as (illegal) street art. in effect it brings the gallery to the street and forces parisians confront their image of youth who have usually depicted only as rioting, violent hoodlums. “28 millimetres, portrait of a generation”

via foam, international photography magazine