le project WOMEN.

Hypebeast had a little blurb about this project today and it interested me so I looked further into it. Artist JR, behind project 28 Millimeters is spreading smiles across the world; literally. He has gone into Kenya, Sudan, Sierra-Leone and Liberia; areas where women suffer extreme violence due to the armed conflicts and ethnic wars in Africa. They are known to be the source of the worse crimes committed toward women in the world.
JR has gone into these villages, heard the women's stories, and has taken their picture. He will expose these pictures, displaying them first in their own village and then in western countries like Brussels, Paris and London.
My favorite quote in the video below is when he says 'when you hear the story you're like, whoa, maybe the person is dying inside. But then when you ask her to do faces, you see life.'

TRAILER " WOMEN ARE HEROES"
by JR

Here are some pictures from Kenya.