JR
JR, describing himself as a photographer, places large black-and-white photographic images in public places. He claims that the streets are “the biggest art gallery in the world”. JR’s work combines art with action and deals with engagement, freedom, identity and limitations. JR is a director well-known for “Faces Places” (2017), “Ellis” (2015) and “Women Are Heroes” (2010).
Films
- Visages villages90’
Famous French film director Agnès Varda and a well-known photographer and muralist, known only by his initials JR. They share a common passion for images – questioning the way they are shown, in particular. Varda chose cinema, JR chose to create open-air photographic galleries. When Agnès and JR met in 2015, they immediately wanted to shoot a film in France, away from big cities. This is how their documentary road movie came to be – a portrait of slowly fading French villages and their inhabitants.
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