JR: How a mural in Tehachapi supermax prison rekindled hope for inmates :
Tehachapi, Pasting in the courtyard
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Other recent projects from JR include the 2018 Oscar-nominated feature documentary Visages Villages, co-directed with director Agns Varda, a TIME cover, a video mural featuring 1,200 people presented at SFMOMA, an exhibition on the abandoned hospital on Ellis Island and a huge installation at the USMexico border fence. His work is the subject of the 2021 documentary Paper & Glue.
This segment of the TED Radio Hour was produced by Rachel Faulkner White and edited by Sanaz Meshkinpour and Manoush Zomorodi. You can follow us on Twitter @TEDRadioHour and email us at TEDRadio@npr.org.
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