Beschrijving
Something about de Author. JR was born in 1983 in Paris. In 2001, he started photography and decided to travel across Europe to meet the artists who expressed themselves in the street. Between 2004 and 2006, he produced his first series of collages, entitled “Portraits d’une génération”, portraying the inhabitants of the Bosquets housing projects. At the time, riots broke out in the suburbs. He decided to ask the residents to stage their own portraits, in order to address the manipulations of the events by the media. The pictures were pasted on the walls in the bourgeois districts of Paris.
