Women Are Heroes

by JR and Marco Berrebi

Guerilla street artist JR traveled to Sierra Leone, Liberia, Sudan, Kenya, Brazil, India, and Cambodia to seek out women struggling in their everyday lives and, in his words, "to take their stories around the world." Pasting mural-size portraits of his subjects into their own communities--on the sides of buildings, on trains, on bridges--he brings a haunting human presence to harsh environments of social conflict. His photographs of the vast outdoor...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1419703331
• ISBN13: 9781419703331
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 4.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.9" x 13.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary