Artist JR made something beautifulin Le Havre , the second biggest port in France : He used 2,600 sheets of paper and pasted them into the ship container to form an image . The ship will go all the way from Le Havre to Malaysia . This piece is part of the projectWomen Are Heros .
This telecasting is an selection from Rivages , by directorGuillaume Cagniard . He writes :
I require to show through the portraits of dockers an example of a profession embody by majestic and solitary man . deep rooted in traditional values , passed on from father to son , these dockers dispute the constant coming and going of ships . I wanted to pay testimonial to the various swop in the porthole , without which JR ’s project would not have been possible .
The port is a very secluded place , closed off by barriers , without any women . One can only become a dockworker rigorously through father - son legacies . That is what I wanted to show with the three generation of stevedore stacked on top of each other , watching the sauceboat drift by .
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