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. His work has sold at sotheby s and been plastered 100ft high on the wall of tate modern. 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. T he parisian photographer jr is a man routinely touted as the hippest street artist since banksy.

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. 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 an very active french artist he exposes his monumental black and white photographs on concrete walls or rusty roofs of cities throughout the world. In recognition of his achievements he was awarded the 2011 ted prize then worth 100 000.

From buildings in the slums around paris to the walls in the middle east and africa or the favelas of brazil.