JR

A collection of compelling quotations from JR, the renowned French photographer, street artist, and activist. JR is perhaps best known for taking portraits of regular people, reproducing the images at a monumental scale, and pasting them on the sides of buildings in the subjects' neighbourhoods. Among his many other notable projects are a gigantic photo of a child peering over...

The Wrinkles of the City project first started when JR visited the city of Cartagena, Spain. JR photographed its oldest inhabitants, who are seen as the memory incarnate of the city, marked by the scars of its history, economic expansion, and socio-cultural mutations. While meeting and photographing the elderly, JR imagined their wrinkles as the marks of time, the traces...