These photographic portraits have appeared on a hoarding surrounding the former Bristol Magistrates’ Court on Nelson Street. Nothing has appeared to explain what they are, but they are part of French artist JR’s global art project, Inside Out, where portraits are pasted up in cities across the world.

They are the first such portraits I have seen in Bristol, but there is an interesting local link because Alastair Siddons, whose debut film In the Dark Half, set in Hartcliffe, is receiving its premiere next month at the Raindance Film Festival in London, is working with JR to document the Inside Out project in a series of films. Read more here.