With One Eye Open is a short documentary series about photography in graffiti culture. Written, filmed, and directed by Jonathan Pieterse.Episode 1: The TrainwriterSydney, Australia. Follow a trainwriter from the MIA crew as he hits the Sydney metro, marking the first time a metro in Australia has been painted. The goal of having the [...]
Following the epic run of Dirty Handz, Sao Paulo Signature, and Xplicit Grafx magazine (1992-2009), Sabotage Editions returns in 2025. The world of railway graffiti holds well-kept secrets, and "stories on the tracks" of Sabotage Editions delve into its mysteries. Painted Graves opens the series with previously unpublished stories from the golden age of [...]
The GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE book documents graffiti and rave subculture in the wake of a post-Thatcher Britain, as a disenfranchised youth finds identity through the act of graffiti. Meanwhile, rave's rhetoric of social inclusion resisted the binaries of boredom, race, class and gender, making it one of its generation's most significant youth movements. [...]
The world surrounding graffiti never ceases to surprise, and proof of this is the following book. Scene of Crime provides an unprecedented viewpoint on subway graffiti through images and documents produced by the Toronto Transit Commission’s security personnel. This book unveils a hidden institutional archive filled with incident reports and evidentiary photographs, offering a [...]
Good Guy Boris presents a new book in which he tells us about his adventures with RAMS MSK in Athens. You can pre-order your copy HERE.
Mark Madness presents his new project, ‘Füu di Frei’ (Feeling Free) narrates the story of a group of writers whose connection transcends the ordinary. They share the same goal: to challenge the status quo. Their impulse for breaching barriers knows no limits, and it helps them face extreme situations, such as exploring train depots at [...]
ILICITO presents “BCN Metro Stories”, a book about graffiti in the Barcelona subway. 600 exclusive photographs spread over 412 pages in which we will also find interviews with the writers ZOER, JABATO and SIMO. You can make your reservation HERE. Ver esta publicación en Instagram Una publicación compartida de MOLOTOW™ Barcelona (@molotowbarcelona) [...]
The publication Repainting Subway Art is the consummation of a tribute to the inventiveness and creativity of the original graffiti writers and photographers of the book Subway Art (Martha Cooper @marthacoopergram , Henry Chalfant @henrychalfant. Thames & Hudson, New York, 1984) and the worldwide graffiti movement they inspired for more than 40 years. One gifted Dutch graffiti [...]
Tunnel Syndrome is a 230-page professionally bound, hardback book that includes never seen before photographs and stories from some of London most notorious writers of the last 25 years. This limited edition tome delves deep into the world oldest underground train system and opens the door to famous yards, layups and tunnels that are [...]
Documentary photographer Mark Madness, specialized in the trainwriting subculture and author of the Barcelona Showdown (2021) book, is currently working on a new project that will be released after the summer. “Füu di Frei” is the name Mark has given the short film, his first piece as a videographer. After tracking him on Instagram [...]
