[hlarmy]

Courtesy of Hang Up Gallery:

Labelled as "The hippest street artist since Banksy" by The Sunday Times Style magazine French photographer JR introduces his latest series of work for a project entitled “Unframed” . The idea is to take works of other famous photographers and install them somewhere unexpected, giving the images new meaning when discovered by passers by. The project is co-produced by the Musée de l’Elysée and the Images festival, with photographs taken from the collection of the museum and pasted up in the city of Vevey, Switzerland.

JR who describes himself , a hybrid “photograffeur”, pastes enormous black-and-white photographic canvases in various urban environments. In Britain, his best- known work is certainly Ladj Ly By— a photograph that captures all the tensions of the 2004 Paris suburb riots.

www.hanguppictures.com/_webapp_232806/New_JR_work_in_Switzerland_from_his_latest_project_%27Unframed%27

[wizzy]

JR is so hip it hurts my lip (thats rapping btw). Like his work though H.

[jeromeetjess]

I love his work