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.
Mode 2 - Nude Urban Art
Despite, or perhaps because of his traditional graffiti background (he is one of the most central figures of European graffiti), the Briton Mode 2 has developed an offshoot style of more traditional portraiture.
His recent art installations consist of hand-drawn motives on cardboards. They thematize different themes like friendship, love and sex and often show daring nude scenes from the porn world.
Format: What do you make of the media fascination with graffiti in recent years, particularly with some of the work Banksy has produced?
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Ruedi One - Graffiti Photographer
Ruedione from Heidelberg, Germany, is one of the best known graffiti photographers worldwide. For years he was an active graffiti writer himself, what makes it possible for him to have a close contact to the writers scene and thus access to illegal live graffiti action.
His photos - mostly in black/white - visually describe the emotions during writing. It’s his lifework to document and preserve the moments that kept him writing his name on a lot of surfaces for years.
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Urban Photo Contest - Prize Update!
Update: Here are the winners of the Urban Photo Contest…
I have great news for all the people - about 160 - who already joined the Urban Photo Contest and for those, who will join the competition! Today two packages with T-shirts, marker, spray cans, bags, pencils, stickers and sketchbooks by Montana Cans arrived! So we updated the ten prize-packages.
For more info, visit the Urban Photo Contest site!
The Prizes Prize 1: Part of Rebellion #1: Flying Förtress (book) Power of Style: Berlin Stylewriting (book) Art Inconsequence: Advanced Vandalism (book) Black Ink: Illustrations by Ata “Toast” Bozaci (book) Montana Gold spray can (Shock 9000 Black) Montana marker (Bombing 0.8 inch) Montana T-shirt Montana accessory bag Montana pencils, rubber, lanyard, sketchbook & bag
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Street Photography: Mauerpark Flea Market
In my opinion there is hardly nothing better than to spend half a day at a flea market. I like the tiny alleys between the almost infinite number of stalls and wagons. I love it to search and find things of which I never knew that they exist, handmade shirts, old books or crazy furnishings.
But what i like most, is to watch and photograph other people which are extremely absorbed in the search after a bargain! Flea markets are an indispensable element of urban landscape!
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Superblast Graffiti Exhibition, Berlin
Berlin-based urban artist Manuel Osterholt aka Superblast is going to have a new exhibition in Berlin this month!
Since 1989, Superblast discovered the world of graffiti, which made him detect his own, Hip Hop, Punk Rock and skateboarding influenced style. As a graphic designer he works with a lot of big brands like Sony Playstation, Ecko and Montana. His book Neo Utopia, which is part of some of our urban photo contest prize packages, presents his whole career, starting with style-writing in Heidelberg to street art influenced graphic design and painting in Berlin.
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Urban Photo Contest
Update: Here are the winners of the Urban Photo Contest…
Today it’s the launch-day of this new, independent, street, design, urban art & photography blog. To have a great start, I came up with the plan to do this photo contest with lots of great prizes!
Urban Photo Contest - Huh?!? First of all I have to say that this is an international photo contest and I hope that a lot of people will join the competition. The thematic priority of urbanartcore.eu is roughly speaking everything which has to do with “urban”. Hence the contest rules are very easy:
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McGee meets Templeton & Pettibon
Barry McGee, Ed Templeton and Raymond Pettibon represent - everyone for himself - the subcultural worlds of skateboarding, graffiti and punk. They are classified as underground-heroes, who are established in the top class of contemporary fine arts.
In april their different artworks were presented for the first time as an art group exhibition:
“McGee’s sad, sullen faces and neon-colored geometric panels reflect the archetypal image of man overpowered by omnipresent media, Templeton’s portraits of suburban youths perfectly illustrate the harsh alienation of teenage life, while Pettibon’s drawings and paintings focus sharply on issues of personal/social unrest, life during war and the constant power struggle between a man and his destiny.”
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Kusho: Writing in the Sky
Shinichi Maruyama’s Kusho
Since 2003, the Japanese artist and photographer Shinichi Maruyama - born in Nagano - lives and works in New York City. He generates a new remarkable art movement, called Kusho.
Kusho, which means as much as “Writing in the Sky” is in my opinion paraphrased at its best thus: A human being takes an oversized, broom-like paintbrush, dunks it into a bucket full of more diluted indian ink - it’s a special black colour mixing - takes position in front of a camera and wags the brush through air.
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