- [J.R.] Art is not supposed to change the world.
But art can change the way we see the world.
So now my wish is--
for you to stand up for what you care about.
By participating in a global art project,
and together, we turn the world inside out.
(piano music)
- [Announcer] They had a big idea to change the world.
But they couldn't do it alone.
- [Woman 1] So my wish--
- [Man 1] So my wish--
- [Man 2] I wish--
- [Man 3] So now my wish--
- [French Man] And now here's my wish--
- [J.R.] My name is JR.
I like to call myself an artist.
There's two ways of thinking about my work.
The easy way is just I'm just papering
black and white images on walls.
But I believe my work is about connecting people.
For me, it's the power of bringing people together.
I went there to do art projects with the community.
Now I realized the community wanted to do art projects
even more than I wanted,
and start thinking, why don't I
take myself out of the equation and let them do it.
So the wish was pretty simple.
Is you just put up a website and
you can send us your photo for whatever you believe in
or whatever you wanna fight for.
We'll send you back your photo in large format
wherever you are in the world.
Every day I seek roles, living around the world.
The project went much further than the places I've been,
and that shows the power of art.
And the photo booth truck is the magic of it.
- [Woman 2] We're a team of four
traveling in the photo booth truck.
Josh, Basel, Jaime and I.
- [JR] We are reusing two of these trucks
to cover 30 cities around America.
- [Woman 2] For just a tool for people that wanna
send a positive message.
- [JR] Once the truck is ready and running,
anyone can come, wait for the flash,
touch the screen, take your picture, type your information.
In a matter of a minute or so, it prints on the side
three by four feet.
No one is used to seeing their faces so big.
The truck has this magic about bringing photography
back to the print.
Then the posters go to the wall.
We use wallpaper glue,
put them up, and that's it.
We printed more than 300,000 faces already,
and we sent them to more than 130 countries.
- [Luana] It's the people's art project.
We don't decide the message.
It can be political to bring attention to issues.
- [JR] I love the idea of using photography to promote change.
This specific project is to raise awareness
about the Dreamers situations.
- [Karina Ruiz] Inside Out is bringing the opportunity
for Dreamers like myself.
A person that came here at a young age
to have a better future.
To come out and give a face to the issue.
- [VIANEY PEREZ] When people drive by and they see a lot of faces,
they're gonna get curious and they're gonna wonder
that's the face to the issue.
To humanize it.
- [JR] You do this thing that just pasting an image
up there might have no impact, but it does have an impact.
You cannot know when and how, but it's worth trying.
It all starts with believing, right?
So, if you don't believe that you can make change,
change will never happen.
Even if it's a very small change in one person,
that's a positive change.
This is not about JR anymore,
it's about everyone that believes
that art can change the world.
I think that definitely art can change
the perception we have about the world.
And if we start seeing the world differently,
maybe it's a good path to start changing the world.