JR

Through the technique of photographic collage he exhibited freely on the walls around the world. His work combines art , action, talks about freedom, identity and limit. After finding a camera in Paris’s metro in 2001, he traveled all around Europe to meet those who express themselves on walls and facades that shape cities. Observing the people he meets and listening to their message, their glue portraits in the streets, basements and roofs of Paris . Between 2004 and 2006 , he produced Portrait of a Generation: portraits of suburban youth he exhibits in large format , in the bourgeois districts of Paris . From these initial actions , he seeks to bring art into the street. This illegal project became officially recognized when the mayor of Paris accepts the display of these photos on his buildings.