When the Times contacted him, JR suggested that rather than take on an entirely new commission, he could perhaps extend this existing interest in the city's unseen overseas arrivals for the paper’s weekend supplement. His 2014 project Unframed - Ellis Island, saw JR paste archive photographs of early 20th century arrivals to New York’s famous immigration facliity. The Parisian artist is himself an immigrant, having lived in New York on and off for the past four years. Watch our video with the artist in which he reveals the thinking behind his New York Times cover at the weekendĭid you see JR’s cover story on last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine? The French artist shot portraits of 16 recent immigrants to the US, individuals whom many New Yorkers might pass by without appreciating the struggles each went through to get to the United States.Īs JR explains in our video, shot earlier today in Phaidon’s London offices, immigration is a subject that has intrigued him for some time.
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