I first came across this man’s work a number of years ago when he began to receive critical aclaim on The Wooster Collective blog. It was his large scale wheat paste b&w portraits placed all around Paris that caught the Street Art community’s attention. These posters were roughly A0 in size, some times covering a shop front. That was about 4/5 years ago, since then, JR as an artist has evolved at a rapid pace.
The content of JR’s work is still the same (dramatic photographic portraits with a political slant) except now its scale is enormous. It covers buildings, sometimes streets or whole bridges at a time. The purpose of the work a great deal of the time is a celebration of the human spirit through times or situations of strife. Projects in Palestine and the Faveles in Rio are two of many examples to choose from all over the world that highlight this point.
Here is his site: http://www.jr-art.net/
