OCCUPY ART // Occupy.Inside.Out Puts Faces With A Movement
Oct 24, 2011
image courtesy of Charles Meacham - http://www.charlesmeacham.com/
Last week we relayed a call from Brooklyn photographer Steven Greaves and the folks at TED.com, who needed volunteers to help wheat paste Greaves' 99 portraits of everyday people involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement throughout Downtown Manhattan. The project, occupy.inside.out, was staged as part of photographer JR's global Inside Out endeavor.
We're happy to report that the wheat pasting was a massive success. Greaves sent along some photos of the portraits going up and told us more about the project. "We wanted to offer people a way to share their stories," he says. "The Occupy Wall Street movement has been portrayed as a mob of discontent. While there are definitely complaints, that's not the whole story. What we've experienced is much to the contrary: veterans, priests, doctors, lawyers and other everyday people who are more than just angry. These people work every day of their lives and are starting to become empowered to do something about the injustices that they see around them and in the system."
Check out photos of the occupy.inside.out wheat pasting after the jump.
image courtesy of Charles Meacham - http://www.charlesmeacham.com/
image courtesy of Charles Meacham - http://www.charlesmeacham.com/
image courtesy of Charles Meacham - http://www.charlesmeacham.com/
image courtesy of Charles Meacham - http://www.charlesmeacham.com/
image courtesy of Charles Meacham - http://www.charlesmeacham.com/
image courtesy of Charles Meacham - http://www.charlesmeacham.com/
image courtesy of Charles Meacham - http://www.charlesmeacham.com/
-- John Ruscher
