Known by his initials, JR is a contemporary artist, urban photographer, director and street artist, today renowned throughout the world for its photographic collages. Below are some of its flagship projects: 

28 millimeters. Portrait of a Generation, a huge illegal exhibition of large format photographs pasted on the buildings of the Cité des Bosquets in Montfermeil.

2 Face Face with portraits of Israelis and Palestinians displayed on either side of the separation wall.

women are heroes to meet ordinary and heroic women in Brazil, India, Kenya and Cambodia.