Your city. Your faces. Your message.
Here’s all it takes to create your own Inside Out Action:
1. Find your why — your community, your topic, your space.
2. Register and connect with our team — we’ll give you everything you need.
3. Take your portraits — send them our way and we’ll print and ship.
4. Paste them — roll up your sleeves and let your voice be heard.
Et voilà.
Start your Action today → link through our bio!
Created by @jr in 2011, the @insideoutproject is the world’s largest participatory art project, and it belongs to everyone.
Do you have a message you want to share with the world? A story to tell? A cause you want to shed light on? Inside Out is a platform that helps communities around the world do just that.
Visit @insideoutproject and DM us to create your Action.
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!
In 2022, we brought the Inside Out Photobooth to Tehachapi State Prison. When it became time to take portraits, nobody wanted to go first.
Chuck, a staff member, finally volunteered.
What followed was a conversation between Chuck and @jr , about music, about graffiti, about what it means to make things. At some point, JR shared his phrase: “I’m an artist until I find a real job.”
Chuck had a real job. Then he became an artist again.
This is episode 2 of our 15th birthday series. Participants from Actions around the world, telling their stories in their own words.
Happy Birthday Inside Out
108 portraits. One shared call for peace. 🤍
At #Fiumicino’s Terminal 1, the installation “DARING PEACE TOGETHER, FOR A FUTURE WITHOUT HATE” transforms the airport into a space for dialogue and connection, with 108 faces from different cultures, backgrounds and faiths coming together to tell one collective story.
A project rooted in the shared belief that meeting, understanding and recognizing one another is the first step toward peace; a project reflecting our vision, where inclusion meets art and innovation.
Thank you to @unhatefoundation , Comunità di @sant.egidio , @studio_kene and @comunedifiumicino for making this possible!
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#TogetherBeyondFlying ✈️
NYC Teachers! Get in touch with our team to plan something really special for the end of the school year, or the start of next year✨ All you need is a camera or a phone, and your students.
Interested in turning your classroom inside out? 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!
In 2018, two schools on opposite sides of the Atlantic looked at each other. Educators in Haiti and France used art to say what statistics rarely capture: that children in Port-de-Paix and children in Tréal share the same value, the same potential, and the same right to a school that stands behind them. Portraits of French students went up in Haiti. Portraits of Haitian students went up in France. Two communities, made visible to each other. Because awareness opens dialogue. And dialogue is where change begins.
📍 Port-de-Paix, Haiti · Tréal, France · 2018
Interested in creating an 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.📚🌏
