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Utah & Ether: The Bonnie and Clyde of graffiti
Graffiti writers Utah and Ether are sneaking around the perimeter of a rail yard in Manila. The Philippine capital, notorious for corruption and violence, has put its public transport system on high...
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The graffiti accounts you need to follow on Instagram
After being arrested for graffiti, Utah and Ether – real names Danielle Bremner and Jim Clay Harper, respectively – both spent a year in prison on felony vandalism charges in New York. When they got...
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Vandals and the City: Documenting London’s underground graffiti scene
By and for whom are cities made? In London, the answer is made visible by an urban horizon clustered with skyscrapers. The city is a servant to neoliberalism, where the financial sector and an...
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Celebrating female graffiti artists around the world
Subversive, counter-cultural and under the radar, it’d be nice to think the world of graffiti would be free from the structures that see women marginalised in so many areas of modern life. But all too...
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Martha Cooper: The photographer who introduced graffiti to the world
Never judge a book by its cover. Meaningful words when you’re sat opposite a major force behind hip hop’s global takeover – and it’s a woman in her sixties. American photojournalist Martha Cooper began...
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These graffiti pen-pals are using street art to talk politics
Over the last year or so, text messages between Dont Fret and Edwin – two graffiti artists from Chicago and London respectively – took a turn towards the political. But where most people would prefer...
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The Graffiti Trucks of Paris
The modern day metropolis is so often pictured as smooth, glossy, fluid, clean and mobile. In high-end time lapse films, airline magazine spreads and endless commercials, the city is pictured as a...
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When graffiti is the only way to survive an urban battleground
Ivonne Reyes steps out of the house she rents near central San Salvador. The dark-haired 25-year-old flags down the route 2C bus, hops on and holds tight as it careens around heavy traffic, street...
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Shining a light on graffiti’s rebel underground
Early one Monday morning, in May 2014, police raided the Parisian apartment of a man called Good Guy Boris. An anti-graffiti task force decided to make an example out of him for his role in documenting...
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Why giant murals of black women are popping up across London
You may already be familiar with the work of Neequaye ‘Dreph’ Dsane. The British Ghanaian street artist has been painting bright, colourful murals across the world’s walls for several years now – with...
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The strange story of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s original partner in crime
When Al Diaz showed up at the premiere of Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, a documentary about his old friend, it should’ve been a point of pride. The graffiti they developed together in 1970s...
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Vandals and the City: Documenting London’s underground graffiti scene
By and for whom are cities made? In London, the answer is made visible by an urban horizon clustered with skyscrapers. The city is a servant to neoliberalism, where the financial sector and an...
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Celebrating female graffiti artists around the world
Subversive, counter-cultural and under the radar, it’d be nice to think the world of graffiti would be free from the structures that see women marginalised in so many areas of modern life. But all too...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Martha Cooper: The photographer who introduced graffiti to the world
Never judge a book by its cover. Meaningful words when you’re sat opposite a major force behind hip hop’s global takeover – and it’s a woman in her sixties. American photojournalist Martha Cooper began...
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These graffiti pen-pals are using street art to talk politics
Over the last year or so, text messages between Dont Fret and Edwin – two graffiti artists from Chicago and London respectively – took a turn towards the political. But where most people would prefer...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Shooting the Graffiti Trucks of Paris
The modern day metropolis is so often pictured as smooth, glossy, fluid, clean and mobile. In high-end time lapse films, airline magazine spreads and endless commercials, the city is pictured as a...
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When graffiti is the only way to survive an urban battleground
Ivonne Reyes steps out of the house she rents near central San Salvador. The dark-haired 25-year-old flags down the route 2C bus, hops on and holds tight as it careens around heavy traffic, street...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Shining a light on graffiti’s rebel underground
Early one Monday morning, in May 2014, police raided the Parisian apartment of a man called Good Guy Boris. An anti-graffiti task force decided to make an example out of him for his role in documenting...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why giant murals of black women are popping up across London
You may already be familiar with the work of Neequaye ‘Dreph’ Dsane. The British Ghanaian street artist has been painting bright, colourful murals across the world’s walls for several years now – with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The strange story of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s original partner in crime
When Al Diaz showed up at the premiere of Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, a documentary about his old friend, it should’ve been a point of pride. The graffiti they developed together in 1970s...
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