Inside Out Project

There’s a whole world to discover within the Inside Out Project and with it, a language of its own.

First up on our new virtual Inside Out dictionary: Group Action

If you want to create your own Group Action message us!

Happy Mother's Day. 💛

Three years ago, 1,700 Brazilian women came together to give visibility to the invisible labor of motherhood.

Across all five regions of Brazil — through 90 interviews and 17 conversation circles spanning 27 states — they shared what it truly means to be a mother in Brazil today. Beyond celebration and idealization, they revealed the full picture: the emotional, mental, and social realities of motherhood, especially in the wake of the pandemic.

Through the Inside Out Project, these stories were not only told, they were seen.

Inside Out started in 2011 with a simple idea: take a portrait, print it large, and paste it somewhere your community can see it. Since then, 600,000 people in 154 countries have done exactly that. Teachers have brought it into classrooms, students have gotten in front of the camera and decided how they wanted to be seen, and the results have gone up on school walls and yards.
The Project gives students a way to explore what they care about and turn it into something visible. Not a classroom exercise that stays inside the room. Something the whole community walks past.
We want to help you create one of these installations with your students, no matter where you are in the world.

If you are a teacher and want to bring Inside Out to your school, DM us!

Four years ago today, 96 children in the Mbera camp pasted their faces onto the walls of the place they called home: a refugee camp in Mauritania, sitting at the border of Mali, deep in the Sahara.

At the time, 80,000 people lived there, having fled drought and instability. This Action helped bring visibility to the children who were displaced.

This Action happened alongside JR’s Déplacé·e·s project, which began in Ukraine with a five-year-old named Valeriia, then travelled to Rwanda, Mauritania, and beyond.

Interested in bringing visibility to more refugee communities around the world?

We’d love to help you create an Action. DM us!

Würzburg is a city in the middle of one of Europe's most defining conversations: who belongs, who is seen, and who gets to take up space. In June 2025, 50 people answered that question by pasting their faces on a public wall. Refugees. Migrant workers. Neighbors. All of them visible, all of them large, all of them impossible to ignore.
Interested in starting your own Action? DM us!

Happy World Book Day!
To celebrate, we’re looking back at an incredible Action in Strasbourg, France.

In 2024, residents were invited to take a pose with their favorite book across the city’s many libraries. The portraits were in turn displayed across the city, from the train station to the airport, turning the public space into a shared declaration: books change us.

A book is never just a book. It’s a door. And Strasbourg, France’s first UNESCO World Book Capital, opened that door for everyone to see.

Which book would you hold up for the world to see? Share in the comments.📚🌏

Vote for the Inside Out Photo of the Year! 🌟📸
As we wrap up an incredible year, our team has selected four standout images that capture the power and creativity of Inside Out Actions across the globe in 2025. Now it’s your turn to choose the winner!
Cast your vote below by December 18th at 12 PM ET. The photographer with the most votes will win a signed copy of JR’s ‘Can Art Change the World?’ book📘✨