Our Nation's Sons
In a bid to end prejudice towards young men in the city, a high school art class attempts to provoke change by the use of 'street art'.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-17727181
I was asked by illustrator, Joe Caslin to document his street art project 'Our Nation's Sons'. The project was built from a collaboration with local school students.
The project will begin Saturday 14th April with the pasting of a 40ft drawing to the gable wall of No. 20 Cowgate, Edinburgh. Over the course of the next ten days, five other large-scale drawings will appear in the city. The aim of the project is use these portraits drawings of young men as a tool to provoke and question current social and media representations of this generation. The drawings once installed will generate spaces throughout the city charged for an encounter between the subject/protagonist and the passer-by/interpreter. The project is funded by Edinburgh City Neighbourhood Partnership.
joecaslin.com/
The film has been broadcasted on British TV via The Community Channel
as well as a part of Open City Documentary Film Festival.
opencitydocsfest.com/index.php?id=213
Made in 2012.