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.

The images below are from his latest project all in Vevey, Switzerland, as part of the Images Festival, using pictures taken from the Musée de l'Elysée. The idea is to take works of other famous photographers and install them somewhere different and unexpected, allowing them to take new meaning when discovered by passers by.






On the old Ateliers mécaniques/ mechanical workshops



Source image: Sebastião Salgado, Guatemala, 1978



Source image: Man Ray