J.R.

Parisian street artist (or as he likes to be called – photograffeur; graffeur being French for graffiti artist) J.R. uses huge photographs printed on waterproof vinyl to plaster over slums in Brazil, Cambodia and Kenya, where the vinyl doubles as new roofs for ramshackle houses. His latest project finds him in Shanghai, where he’s working on a largely unauthorized photo-pasting project to draw attention to the city’s demolition of historic neighbourhoods.