GraffotoSo, I had a rare free day planned a week in advance to go to a few abandoned sites around East Sussex – namely a closed technical college on the sea front. . . And then on to a long closed private school in the countryside Now whilst on these trips I do expect to […]
photos: NoLionsInEngland except Joeppowhere noted Standby for a bit of a rant at inappropriate sentencing. Artist unknown – view LARGE London tagger, bomber and graffiti artist 10FOOT has been sentenced to 26 months in prison for a long list of acts of graffiti, also known as crimes. On release, he has a weird 5 year […]
On My Travels I travel on overland rail in the UK maybe a dozen times a year. Filter that for sober trips with a charged camera and I have more chance of winning the lottery than I do spotting graff on rolling steel. So it was with delight on my way to Gatwick that I […]
Photos from Crack and Shine, used with kind permission. Care about the copyright? Buy the book and check the copyright stated there. Graffoto rarely reviews books, usually because we just drool over the pictures and don’t understand the words. One book that has “4Real” written right through it is Crack and Shine and having completed […]
………Or does it? Are these latest changes by Banksy or not? Opinion in the Graffoto bunker has been divided. Can’t say that passions rose to anywhere near bloodshedding levels though. All the changes basically involve buffing the Team Robbo wording, tidying up and re-working the defaced images. The Waiter rat has changed to this, little […]
Back in July 2009 I wrote a piece about the graff co-existing with the rubble of the old Huncoat Power Station in Lancashire. Join me for the final return visit and a visual ride into them thar hills… All photos by shellshock Quick link to the July 2009 blog…… Quick link to Part 1 of […]
Back in July 2009 I wrote a piece about the graff co-existing with the rubble of the old Huncoat Power Station in Lancashire. Join me for a couple of return visits and a visual ride into them thar hills…. All photos by shellshock Quick Link to the July 2009 blog – if you are interested….. […]
Back in July 2009 I wrote a piece about the graff co-existing with the rubble of the old Huncoat Power Station in Lancashire. Join me for a couple of return visits and a visual ride into them thar hills…. All photos by shellshock Quick Link to the July 2009 blog – if you are interested….. […]
The Trans Pennine Nomads (TPN) could rightly be considered to be the best writers crew in England, and a lot of their pieces co-exist with the rubble of the old Huncoat Power Station in Lancashire. Join me for a visual ride into them thar hills…. All photos by shellshock The disused power station at Huncoat […]
I thought that as a reference book and an X-ray shot into a counter culture that generally is inclined to shun publicity, Subway Art could not be bettered. Sitting with the 30cm x 43cm 25th anniversary addition on my knees (the book – not me) I conclude that as a photograph album this new edition […]
A fairly prominent wall in Shoreditch, almost a whole building ‘taken out’. . . HA and ID crews in attendance…. Buffed by the trigger happy council boys like everything else? Who knows! But by christ if this is the shape of the future state of Shoreditch, I like it!
I knew it would be worth waiting a while to update on the lushness that is painted by Cept……actually, that’s a complete lie, I didn’t have a clue quite what was gonna happen in the last month and a bit around his usual Sclatter Street wall. It had been in this guise below, fairly suitably […]
Stopped on my bike on the way home this evening to snap some rooftop stuff. It has been there for ages, its on a pretty fast and hectic stretch of road, the Euston Road just before the underpass. Scientific measurements by journalists last year proved this is the shittiest, most polluted bit of road in […]
For a couple of years we’ve been meaning to check out this space, walking home in a celebratory mood after watching United steal a 2-1 win from the Gooners it just seemed like a good thing to do. The London Frontline collective/Mighty Mo is the most obvious stuff seen from the top of any passing […]
The Dragon Bar, the legendary graffiti, drinking, snogging and fighting venue passed from our lives about 4 weeks ago. An effort had been made to torch the place, as stunningly captured by our friend on the spot Romanywg. Photo: Romanywg The inside of the decaying, stripped out husk which previously had been such a vibrant, […]