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.
24h Berlin
“24h Berlin – A Day in the Life” is television’s longest program ever! Without actors and tricks, about 80 camera teams filmed a whole day in Germany’s capital Berlin a year ago. The film makes it possible to get impressions of the life in this modern metropolis.
Today it firstly comes to television, for exactly 1440 minutes, that’s 24 hours! You can watch “24h Berlin” in real time via life stream!
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Photos: Emess Stencil Show
Yesterday I informed you about the current exhibition by Berlin based street artist Emess.
Named “What’s the colour of money?”, the stencil art show presents a large number of interesting and often humorous mashups with money, politics and the market as the main themes.
I had some time,attended the opening, marveled about the more than 50 stencil portraits of Queen Elisabeth, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and others and took some nice photos for you!
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Urban Top Shots #2
This is the second part of the “Urban Top Shots” series, which features every week the three best Urban Artcore shots of the last seven days.
Perhaps you have a great shot of urban art, graffiti, architecture, street design, or other urban impressions, too – Become a member of the Urban Artcore Flickr group and add your photos!
This week I was excited about these 3 photos:
Feinkost, by smotret
top urban shots 2
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London Street Life
It’s phenomenally how much fantastic slow motion and time lapse video clips with wonderful urban impressions there are on the Internet!
Do you know the “London - harder, better, faster, stronger” clip by David Hubert? It’s an impressive time lapse short film, made of 3328 single shots from the London city in 2008. Mixed up with Daft Punk’s “Harder, better, faster, stronger” it mediates a great street feeling!
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Urban Top Shots #1
As I told you, I will feature the top three shots of the Urban Artcore Flickr group every week! I do that, because I think that there are many good, but mostly unknown photos on Flickr and so I have some interesting visual content, you’ll see new shots with urban character and the photographers and/ or artists will maybe become some fame.
Perhaps you have a great shot of urban art, graffiti, architecture, street design, or other urban impressions, too - Become a member of the Urban Artcore Flickr group and add your photos!
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Color in Motion - Quintessenz Crew
I like it when people play around with colorful paint in old, abandoned factories and industrial areas. But it is even more interesting, when those people cook up a short story a make a little video out of their paint-action.
Color in Motion is a crazy series of stop motion video clips by Quintessenz Creation from Hannover, Germany. It’s flowing, dripping, dribbling - Take a look on how the paint makes its way!
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New York & Istanbul City Portrait
After I wrote the article about this very impressive lime lapse video from the streets of New York in 2008, I got a lot of submissions with links to other more or less great videos about urban impressions.
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Top 10 - Urban Photography Contest Winners
This is the award ceremony of the international Urban Photo Contest!
Over 220 people joined the competition with about 700 photos, that’s why it was so hard to choose the top ten winners. But we did it! I want to give thanks to the both jurors, Luna Park and Peter Nitsch, who have crucial contributed to the decision-making, thank you!
In order to not unnecessarily prolong the award ceremony, I don’t want to say anything else. Here are the top ten winners of the international Urban Photo Contest by Urbanartcore.eu:
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Impressions: New York 2008
I love this fresh slow motion video made by Vicente Sahuc with a Casio camera in New York, 2008!
The impressions, the cuttings, the details, the colors - Everything fits great together, it’s a feast for the eyes and additionally gives a fantastic feeling of the urban atmosphere in New York! I mostly like the cop, cruising past with his antique police car or the lady with the pantyhose…great!
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Urban Photo Contest Finishes!
Update: Here are the winners of the Urban Photo Contest…
In these minutes, the Urban Photo Contest finishes and I have to say, that it was an successful one!
Urbanartcore Flickr-group
Over 220 people joined the competition with about 700 photos. Although not all photos oblige our idea, this is a great success for this young blog.
In the next days, the jury, Luna Park from New York, Peter Nitsch from Munich and I, will decide which ten photos will gain the rich prizes and a lot of fame.
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