Video: "Wrinkles of the City" - a large-scale project by JR
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Wrinkles on the face are witnesses of a person's age, emotions experienced by him, acquired experience. Old buildings are the same wrinkles, only on the face of the city. French photographer JR decided to show that the destinies of cities and people are inextricably interconnected, and they also age together.
Within the framework of the world-scale project "Wrinkles in the City", the author makes portraits of elderly people, prints them on a large scale and sticks them right on the city streets. In the process of work, the author does not just take pictures of old people - he talks with each of his characters, writing down their memories and noting the changes in the life of the city, which these people are direct witnesses of. The places in which the portraits appear depend solely on the wishes of the author. Typically, JR selects neighborhoods associated with the city's history and heritage. The goal of the photographer is to show us how quickly everything passes and is forgotten on earth, as well as how important it is to preserve the experience and memory of older generations for young people.
The project started in the Spanish Cartagena, and in 2010 the author's works appeared in the Chinese Shanghai. JR chose the last city not by chance, because over the past century Shanghai has experienced many ups and downs: from the Japanese occupation, the establishment of the communist regime, liberation, World War II, the victory of Mao Zedong over the troops of Chiang Kai-shek, the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward to the present, when Shanghai becomes the most important financial and cultural center of the country.
The name JR may be familiar to our readers thanks to another author's project - "Unframed".
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