Tuesday, 24 February 2009

JR-
"The hippest street artist since banksy"
JR is a 25 year old french artist working out of Paris. He is a self described "photograffeur", a hyprid of Photographer and graffiti artist.

JR has made his mark around the world turning unconventional spaces into large scale photograph galleries, for example train carriages in Kibera, Africa, or the
security wall in Isreal. A lot of his
work helps the communties he works in, for example in africa by pasting hhis photographs on slum roofs he in turn made them water proof.



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