[noise] i love when i start a day, and i really don t know where it will take me. waking up every day in a different country, creating projects, never really looking back, just being in the action, action, action, action. maybe that is why i have always been documenting it to keep a trace of it. the excuse of the art is the greatest pass ever. i could be kind of cheyenne afraid to talk to people, but when i do a project, i have to explain, i have come here by myself, with my own money, to try to do this project here with you, in your community, if it makes sense to you what. then, of course, some people ask, what will this achieve? i always say, i don t know, let s see. it s almost like we do a pack of the unknown, we will do this, but i have no idea where it will take us. [noise] thank you. can you show your i.d.. [noise] here i am, a super max prison, with an inmate that has been incarcerated with teenagers, mainly because of the free s
How do you show the kids another part and drugs. we cannot do it for every kid s. a lot of these kids and not being drug dealers. that is him right there. if you look at that photo, he is the only one that survived out of all those kids. most of them started drug dealing and died. that is the quality of life. but when this project shined all over the world, showing the positive message, then they understood the power of art. the mayor saw this favela, the one he wished did not exist on tv every day, but this time for positive things. he said the garbage truck, the electricity for more cables, since then, a lot of things
Maurice said, okay, you need to meet the head of the villa. one night, we walk down the villa. kids with machine guns, grenades, bulletproof jackets, we arrived and there were three leaders. they asked, straightaway, who are you, what do you want? we said we are from france. i am glad he came with me. we had our computer, we said, this is what we ve done enough of the laws of france. they look at this and said, this is not a favela, this is a i showed them the israeli palestine project, we pace at the wall in israel palestine. one of the guys said, what is israel and palestine? they never heard of it. i could not find a bridge to explain it to them. so i closed it, and said, okay, these photos, we want to pace them. the next day, we started pasting this there s.
See that street, go up the street all the way. anyone who steps with a gun, you tell them they are coming to see when i got up there, she was waiting for me on the main square. she said, we want to introduce you to somebody from the community. i said, sure, who? his name is mourinho, he is a photographer. in my head, i said, cool, we don t need a photographer. i want to take portraits. they said, no, you need to talk to merge zero. he arrived, he was born there, raise their, he knows everyone. rather than explaining when i wanted to do, i took portraits that i had from other projects. using my computer, i placed highs on the houses. i brought in that piece of paper, then he understood. he smiled because suddenly, it was a project on his family.
The excuse of the art is the greatest pass ever. i could be kind of cheyenne afraid to talk to people, but when i do a project, i have to explain, i have come here by myself, with my own money, to try to do this project here with you, in your community, if it makes sense to you what. then, of course, some people ask, what will this achieve? i always say, i don t know, let s see. it s almost like we do a pack of the unknown, we will do this,