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