‘I tried not to look’: The photo subject who shocked street art legend JR

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Paper & Glue,” JR was there to create a large-scale artwork comprised of prisoners’ faces and with their voices adding biographical sketches.“At first I tried not to look at him,” JRtold The Post of his subject, who pretty much steals the doc. “The look of his eye and his personality, those things do not go with the tattoo” — which Walsh says he got in order to fall in with a protective prison gang. “But he did not realize the impact his face tattoo has on people who are outside of the prison world.”Part artist, part provocateur and part social scientist, JR is known for pasting up his large-scale photography at locales ranging from the Louvre to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.