在2016年里约热内卢奥运会期间，一系列在脚手架上创作的纪念性摄影装置“巨人”在里约热内卢揭幕。比起与著名运动员合作，JR更喜欢拍摄那些鲜为人知的运动员。

他们训练多年，努力实现参加奥运会的梦想，他们的身份似乎消失在完美手势的美丽背后。他在比赛中拍摄的运动员照片随后被印在巨大的帆布上，剪下来挂在脚手架上。就像他经常做的那样，JR使自己适应了建筑的结构或工作要安装的地点。因此，脚手架本身就成为了一个雕塑元素。

Giants, a series of monumental photographic installations on scaffolding created in situ, was inaugurated in Rio de Janeiro during the 2016 Olympic Games. Rather than working with famous athletes, JR preferred to photograph those who were little- known,

those who train for years, striving to achieve their dream of taking part in the Olympics, and whose identities seem to disappear behind the beauty of the perfect gesture. His photographs of athletes in action were then printed in black and white on huge pieces of canvas, cut out and draped over the scaffold. As he so often does, JR adapted himself to the building’s architecture or to the site where the work was to be installed. The scaffold would thus become a sculptural element in its own right.