Inside Out Poster Project

WITNESS Project International started working with youth and communities through arts based programming with our very successful photography portrait project, as part of the 2011 TED Prize winner JR’s global Inside Out Project. We outfitted Guyanese youth ages 11 – 17 with cameras; they then photographed over 600 children and adults who supported their project. Their photographs sent this message to adults: “Stop your violence against our mothers, sisters, aunts, and neighbors. We see you and you must do better.” Children are the most vulnerable witnesses to violence and they learn from what they see. In the words of JR himself, “What we see changes who we are.”

JR salutes the WITNESS Project Team in Guyana from WITNESS Project on Vimeo.