Photography documentation captures street art, graffiti, and urban art imagery, showcasing diverse styles, techniques, locations, and the raw creative energy of contemporary urban expressions.
Photography serves as the essential medium for documenting and preserving the ephemeral nature of street art, graffiti, and urban art across global cities. Beyond mere documentation, urban art photography has developed into its own artistic discipline, exploring creative angles, lighting techniques, and framing choices that enhance the impact of the original artworks.
Through exhibitions, publications, and digital platforms, photographers play a vital role in bringing street art to audiences who cannot experience these works firsthand, democratizing access to urban creativity while honoring the artists’ original intentions and contexts.
Off the Beaten Tracks Photography
I really like the photos of those guys…Sven Marquardt, Peter Franck, Matthias Gephart and Sebastian Klug are photographing off the beaten tracks for years and are now showing their latest works at Neonchocolate Gallery in Berlin!
Photographing the often bizarre protagonists of the multiple parallel worlds which can be found in every sociopolitical, urban environment (punks, easy-jet party dudes, etc.) the four photographers got quite popular in the last months…
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Creating like a Pro, Urban Art Photography
During the last couple of days, when I stayed at home because of some flu stuff, I was browsing through my digital photo-archive and came up with a neat idea for a new urban art related photo-series, focusing not on the artists, but on their tools and equipment!
I ended up with a great collection of photos showing spray cans, brushes, paint buckets, masking tape, markers, gloves, even more cans, fire-extinguishers, and everything else a street or graffiti artist probably needs… The name of this new photography project: Urban Tools - Creating like a Pro.
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Urban Artists in Action, Art Takes Miami Voting
I’m glad to inform you, that my Urban Artists in Action #1 photo-series is participating in this year’s Art Takes Miami contest! I’m pretty sure some of you already got this info via Facebook and I know that a lot already helped out, but today I’d like to officially ask all of you again to support my photo-series by voting for me and my pics to make it possible to win the People’s Choice Award.
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JR’s Inside Out Project
Don’t know if you already heard about it, but the TED Prize and famous photographer and urban artist JR (the 2011 TED Prize winner) developed a nice new project called Inside Out in March 2011. The idea behind this project is that you submit a portrait photo of yourself, which will be printed and send back to you so that you are able to paste the poster somewhere in the city…
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JR & The 28 Millimetres Project
Artist Interview | Some days ago, I stumbled upon the fantastic telephone interview with famous photographer, urban artist, political activist and the 2011 TED Prize winner JR, TED did with him in October 2010. It seems like I totally missed it back then… However, JR talks about his “28 Millimetres Project”, how it started, why he did it, what reactions he tried to cause with it and why “Women Are Heroes”…
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Light Art Performance Photography
Light Art | Already since 2007, the Bremen-based light art performance photography artists Jörg Miedza and Jan Wöllert are working together under the label of LAPP-Pro and I have to say that I unfortunately noticed them only a few days ago…
Light art performance photography or short LAPP is, as LAPP-Pro defines, a “one-shot time bulb exposure photography, performed additionally with movement of light” and in that way similar to light graffiti, light drawing or light writing.
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JR in China: The Wrinkles of Shanghai
Photo Paste-Ups | French photographer and urban artist JR is in Shanghai to paste-up a new series of street photographs of elderly Chinese people. As Arrested Motion wrote, the “photos will be pasted up at locations that he feels speak to the heritage of a city that has definitely has its share of ups and downs”.
After his participation in the “Abu Dhabi Art Fair” in 2009 and the fantastic “Women Are Heroes” project, “The Wrinkles of the City” is JR’s latest urban photography project and is supported by Magda Danysz Gallery.
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Sex Art, Murals, 3D Installations & Interviews
The latest Urban Art Eye Candy link-tips are already a while ago, but today I found some time to go through the deep archive of my feed reader to filter out the really interesting things - And of course there are also a lot of new entries in the Urban Artcore flickr-group, so calm down, relax, and take a look at these great street art and graffiti news…
Interview: Mode 2 Filthygorgeousthings.com did a nice interview with Mode2 on hip hop, sex, art, and graffiti! As you maybe know, the London-based graffiti legend did a nice live-painting in Berlin a few weeks ago…
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Commercial Urban Art, Evol’s Studio & Zombie Walk
There are only some hours left, before we could take a more or less long, but wonderful weekend with a lot sunshine, cold drinks and maybe a bathing trip. But before you will now close your eyes and dream of your early weekend, you should have a look at this week’s Urban Art Eye Candy!
This time I collected some great new mural artworks, stencil spray-paintings and other impressing artworks from all over the world…
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Stencil Art Pirates: Los Piratoz
In addition to the stencil art show by two Hamburg-based street artist tomorrow at ATM Gallery, I want to give you some impressions of that nice book about the famous Hamburger stencil art crew Los Piratoz, which is maybe the most active street art crew in the Hanseatic city.
As I could read in the book, which is entitled “Yes we Arrrrr!” and arrived at my home in the last week, they started round about 2002 to stick stencil sprayed stickers in the streets and decided a short while after to creatively work under the label Los Piratoz.
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