French Artist Jr Posters As Roofs

Jr is the pseudonym of a french photographer and artist whose identity is unconfirmed.

French artist jr posters as roofs.

As an very active french artist he exposes his monumental black and white photographs on concrete walls or rusty roofs of cities throughout the world. His work has sold at sotheby s and been plastered 100ft high on the wall of tate modern. T he parisian photographer jr is a man routinely touted as the hippest street artist since banksy. Describing himself as a photograffeur he flyposts large black and white photographic images in public locations in a manner similar to the appropriation of the built environment by the graffiti artist.

Over the last two decades he has developed multiple public projects and numerous site specific interventions in cities all over the world. Jr works at the intersection of photography street art filmmaking and social engagement. After observing the people he met and listening to their message jr pasted their portraits up in the streets and basements and on the roof tops of paris. As a result of his frequently spectacular work jr is sometimes described as an artiviste a portmanteau of the french words for artist and activist which he doesn t like.

Between 2004 and 2006 jr created portraits of a generation portraits of young people from the housing projects around paris that he exhibited in huge format.