Drops: Canon x JR Casa Amarela Project Video
For the past year, as part of his WOMEN project, JR has been involved in a large-scale event in the oldest favela (shanty town) of Rio de Janeiro. In August 2008, some 20 gigantic portraits of women living in the favela were pasted on more than 40 houses. For the first time, it was art and culture that put Morro da Providencia in the headlines: it has had the reputation of being the most dangerous favela in Rio.