Exploring Your Environment
Movie Review: Faces Places
The documentary "Faces Places" captures street artist JR and Belgian film director Agnes Varda on their journey of capturing France's beauty through its people. Their strategy of completing such a project was to become friends or familiar with the immediate community and the people that they were photographing. This not only gave JR and Varda an insight on what the people were like in each community they visited but it made the project more wholesome and personal. The purpose of their photography project is to bring communities together through the stories that the artworks depicted. JR and Varda visited a former coal-mining town and spoke to a woman named Jennie who seems to be the only one left living in a miner's home which was set to be demolished. After speaking to her and learning of her story along with talking to neighbors from the community and learning the significance of the coal mines to the community, Varda and JR took a headshot of Jennie and put t...
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