Portrait

As a new project we started to look into TED Prize and the recents winner idea of taking portraits and portraying them around random on walls, sidewalks, buildings in different towns.

The TED Prize is designed to leverage the TED community’s exceptional array of talent and resources. It is awarded annually to an exceptional individual who receives $100,000 and, much more important, “One Wish to Change the World.” After several months of preparation, s/he unveils his/her wish at an award ceremony held during the TED Conference. These wishes have led to collaborative initiatives with far-reaching impact
JR's wish:

"I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating in a global art project, and together we'll turn the world...INSIDE OUT

"The Plan
Create a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. Everyone will be challenged to use black and white photographic portraits to discover, reveal and share the untold stories and images of people around the world. These digitally uploaded images will be made into posters and sent back to the project’s co-creators for them to exhibit in their own communities. People can participate as an individual or in a group; posters can be placed anywhere, from a solitary image in an office window to a wall of portraits on an abandoned building or a full stadium. These exhibitions will be documented, archived and viewable virtually"
http://www.tedprize.org/jr-2011-ted-prize-winner/

We were influenced by this topic and idea, so individually we took a portrait of ourselves to show our personality/character and portrayed it in black and white. This would then lead onto various extravagant ideas such like those of TED Prize.