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WHEN through the streets of Medellin, Colombia looks portrait- giant portrait of daily life hero as a man biasa.Potret an artist, even the greengrocer mother to 14 children, coloring the walls of concrete buildings in the road with the intention of giving something that can distract the youth from engaging in the mire of the street violence of gangsterism.
20 people images displayed on a large scale in comuna uno , which is one of the black areas in the metropolitan city of Colombia’s 2.3 million people.
The area is quite famous for his great battle occurred between powerful cocaine cartels and the government sometime in the 1990s. Exhibition posters, known as the Hero Without Borders ‘story’ about sempadanwilayah-regional organized crime groups in Medellin. City which ranked as the 14th most dangerous city in the world that has a murder rate of 70 persons per 1,000 population in the last year. example“We want to honor the heroes of daily life. They are neighbors who may not have a roll of a diploma, but can be an example to our children as not to compromise the activities of illegal, “said the psychologist, Lina Alvarez. He was directly involved in the campaign sponsored by the city government.
The exhibition does not involve sports stars and singers. Portraits of people like Maria Emiliana Oquendo, 86, was a tailor who raise 14 children while Jonathan Uribe school rap is open free of charge. At first, many people thought the government to pay their last respects to the victims of crime and guerrilla groups fighting the Colombian authorities for nearly half decades. images on giant posters mounted the walls and roof in the vicinity of Medellin can be seen via the cable car was built in 2006 to go to the city’s poorest neighborhoods of the mountainside.“We want to show to the locals who boarded Metrocable that time next neighborhood violence is not an entity but full of positives, “said Alvarez.
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One of the iconic exhibition is a vegetable seller, who is also active in dance, Gilberto Idarraga. He did not expect the sudden exposure in the media would bring him fame.
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“Our contribution is to strive to achieve something that is best in life,” he told a local newspaper, El Colombiano .
Actually, the selection of individuals who made motivational poster is done by the students at schools for the neighborhood. They tend to see people who work hard and medium as a model which is good.
However, the initiative was inspired by the exhibition of French artist and photographer, JR, who was well known by the work of a giant portrait of youth in the suburbs of Paris, Rio de Janeiro slum, Brazil and also in Palestine. Images of Medellin which was captured by photographer Colombia Felipe Mesa is accompanied by a few words such as “harmony and tolerance ‘,’ love and freedom. Other message of peace, it highlighted the changes to be enjoyed in the neighborhood.Related posts:
