Hang-Up Gallery

JR is a pseudonymous photographer and graffiti artist. Best known for fly-papering photocopies of his art onto the streets, JR’s origins as a photographer began when he found a camera in the Paris metro and began documenting his own graffiti work. He went on to staging portraits of his friends and acquaintances, which he would then paste onto building interiors and exteriors. One of his earliest photo series, Portraits of a Generation, was a documentation of the residents of the neighborhood Cité des Bosquets during the 2005 French riots—JR deliberately pasting the photographs in wealthier east Paris neighborhoods as means of social and political critique. The artist has had several ongoing projects, including Inside...