page_title: Inside Out Project
section_title: Photo booths
hierarchical_section_title: Inside Out Project / Photo booths
caption_attribution_description: English: Official Poster for Inside Out Film
context_page_description: Inside Out is a global participatory art project, initiated by the French photographer JR.
  After winning the TED prize in 2011, JR expressed his wish to “change the world” by turning it 'inside out'. With the $100,000, from the TED Prize JR set about achieving this by giving the power of representation back to the people.
  The project, inspired by JR's large-format street pastings, is open to anyone to participate in, anywhere in the world. The idea behind it is to place emphasis on the people and their stories behind each action or cause. Apart from the printing of portraits, participants have full control of both the creative process and the pasting process. By using strictly black-and-white portraits, which are printed and then pasted in an exterior space, each group action can make a statement in the form of a public artwork and share their message with the rest of the world.
  Every Inside Out group action is documented, archived, and exhibited on the project's website. As of June 2015, over 1,200 group actions had taken place, and nearly 160,000 posters had been printed and shipped to more than 127 countries.
context_section_description: Starting in 2011, JR set up large photo booths in different locations — two in Paris, France, one in Arles, France and one in Abu Dhabi in order to get more people involved in the project. They allow participants in Inside Out to immediately receive their portraits after having their picture taken, becoming active models in the project. Without having to submit a Group Action on the website, participants are invited to paste their picture wherever it makes sense for them.
  Following these installations, mobile photo booth trucks were constructed for cross-country tours. Each truck features a built-in photo booth and printer, making the Inside Out process more immediate. This way, Inside Out managed to show the world faces from the villages and cities they visited – faces that would have otherwise never have been exposed.
  A List of the Inside Out photo booths since 2011:
  “Time is Now, Yalla!”, Israel and Palestine, September 2011. 3275 portraits of Israelis and Palestinians were collected.
  “Perrotin Gallery, Paris”. The photo booth was installed at the Perrotin Gallery in Paris between November and January 2012 as a part of JR’s exhibit entitled “Encrages”. 6168 portraits were collected.
  “Perrotin Gallery, Hong Kong”. A second photo booth was installed in the gallery this time in Hong Kong, between September and November 2012. 3 933 portraits were taken.
  “Images Festival, Vevey”. This photo booth was installed for the festival in Vevey, Switzerland in September 2012. 4 773 portraits were collected.
  “North of Japan & Tokyo”. In autumn of 2012, a photo booth traveled through Japan from Tokyo to Fukushima collecting 24 067 portraits along the way.
  In September 2013, 1239 portraits were taken at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
  At the “Unseen Photo Fair” in Amsterdam, 1 748 portraits were also taken.
  In October 2013, a photo booth truck set in London allowed 1 851 people to strike a pose.
  In November 2013, a photo booth truck was set in Paris to celebrate the new documentary “Inside Out: The People’s Art Project”, collecting 2 130 portraits.
  In Shreveport, Louisiana, a photo booth truck collected 533 portraits.
  From January to March 2014, a photo booth was installed in the Contemporary museum of Dallas, in Dallas, Texas. 2957 people had their picture taken.
  From March to June 2014, a photo booth was set up at the Frieder Burda museum in Baden Baden, Germany collecting 23 669 portraits.
  A photo booth truck in Shanghai collected 23 669 portraits.
  In Wuppertal, Germany, 700 people took their portrait to take a stance in the Group Action “Different faces, different views” in October 2014.
  As a part of the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Foundation, a photo booth truck was set up from March to April 2015. 3610 portraits were collected.
  The Inside Out action Chambéry, in France in June 2015 gave the opportunity to participants to see their portraits be immediately pasted onto the ground around the courthouse, forming a gigantic eye.
  Recently, one of the trucks traveled to the “Ideas” festival in Aspen, Colorado in June 2015. 575 portraits were collected.
  A photo booth truck was in Boston's Back Bay Station and Dudley Square (Roxbury, MA) where 648 portraits were collected from both sites.
  The trucks and the Inside Out Project team traveled across the United States and France to organize various photo booth actions. 
   
  InsideOut NYC - Times Square
  One of Inside Out’s largest actions to date took place in New York City. From April to May 2013, the team built a photo-booth truck that traveled first to the outer boroughs of the city and finally to Times Square for the final installation. The action was an effort to portray a collective view of New Yorkers after Hurricane Sandy, and challenge the advertising of the busiest place in the nation with art. The posters were pasted in the communities of the outer boroughs, in Times Square itself, and citywide. Nearly 6,000 posters were printed.
  Inside Out 11M
  Another photo booth action was Inside Out 11M, a nationwide initiative aimed at creating a portrait of America that spoke fo
caption: Official Poster for Inside Out film
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