Biografía
French photographic street artist JR works in a high-visibility manner, often posting his giant monochrome images in public spaces such as rooftops, church windows and the sides of buses. He recently participated in the acclaimed urban art exhibition at the Tate Modern in London, embellishing the side of the giant Turbine Hall with the same striking image currently on the homepage of the website. This image is one of JR's most powerful and iconic, and first appeared in the Parisian suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois in 2004. The year after, a riot broke out in the banlieue and this ironic image came to epitomize the violence. "The media had a role," JR explained. "Each night they reported the number of cars burnt in one area, and other areas wanted to burn more. You think it's a gun and at the last moment, it's a video-camera. But a video-camera can be a gun. You never know if the media is giving you true or false information."
