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.
Urban Top Shots #13
Today I had some time to zap through the mass of great photos in the Urban Artcore group on Flickr.
I found some really amazing shots, including photos of artworks by Case, Luzinterruptus, Orticanoodles and Maclaim, which I will not longer deforce from you…
Perhaps you have great shots of urban art, graffiti, architecture, street design, or other urban impressions too, you could become a new member of the Urban Artcore Flickr group and add your photos!
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Paper Art: Swoon Interview & New Artworks!
For some weeks, the print festival “Philagrafika 2010”, which thematizes the role of print in contemporary artistic practice, takes place in North Philadelphia.
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Urban Art Photographers Update
Today I updated one of my most successful articles: Top Urban Art Photographers!
With Ian Cox, MJay, Ozkar and Norman Behrendt, four more great urban art photographers were added to the list, which contains the creme de la creme of urban art photography.
For me, the work of these photographers is very important. They fight against the incredible transitoriness of graffiti and street art and also document urban atmosphere in their own styles. It is really interesting and impressing to see the different interpretations of urban art photography!
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French Urban Art: L’Atlas in India
After his travel to New York in October 2009, famous French urban artist L’Atlas visited India for his exhibition at Alliance Francaise.
Certainly he hit the roads of New Delhi and presented his great paintings (I really love his artworks) in an urban context.
“The 31-years-old has spray-painted two huge canvases at Alliance Francaise and is planning to temporarily vandalize the floor and turn it into a work of art, a painted warren. The canvases are a crisscross of interlinking lines resembling a maze a compass giving directions. They are not chaotic; instead they exude the symmetry of the mandala and have similarities with Indian rangoli patterns. […]
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Urban Top Shots #12
Today I have five beautiful pieces of urban art photography for you!
As you maybe know, I sometimes feature some top shots to make mostly unknown, but good pictures more popular. So I have some interesting visual content, you see new urban shots and the photographers and/ or artists will maybe become some fame.
All the following photos came from the Urban Artcore Flickr-Group. You can join that group and add your own shots! I hope some of you will get some inspiration for their next artworks or photographs. Have fun and a nice Friday-afternoon.
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Russian Stencil Art: The Incubus Project
Yesterday, I visited my most favorite gallery in Berlin, the ATM Gallery, to take some photos of the interesting stencil artworks by the Russian street artist Incubus Project.
I loved the dirty, futuristic and sometimes unclean style and especially the wooden raw materials, he used to spray on. For me, as a small urban nerd, the robot motives were really treat for the eyes!
“The themes are mainly futuristic and by displaying machinery they bring early videos by Kraftwerk, a german technopop band, to memory. Moreover the purist choice of colors -red/black - constitutes another part of their expressive and longevity stencils.” (press release)
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Ghostvillage Project: Repaint Abandoned Cities!
If your aren’t Scottish, you have maybe never heard about the great and fantastic “Ghostvillage Project”. Some weeks ago, six more or less renowned urban artists - Timid, Remi/Rough, System, Stormie Mills, Juice 126 and Derm - meet each other for three days on the west coast of Scotland to repaint an abandoned 1970s village.
Working together on huge collaborative walls and individually in hidden nooks and crannies all over the site the artists realised long held dreams and were inspired by the bleakness and remoteness of the site. Drawing on the history of the village the artists’ stated intent on completion of the project was to populate the ghostvillage with the art and characters that it deserved. (Agents of Change)
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WTF: Neon Sign Boneyard in Las Vegas?
Recently I read an article about the “Neon Sign Boneyard” in Las Vegas written by my friend Bigod, who found a very interesting photo-album about it on Flickr.
“The Neon Sign Boneyard in Las Vegas. Here you find the old neon signs that were outside casinos that have long since gone. The boneyard is a fantastic commentary on the culture and architecture of Las Vegas from its early days in the 1920’s to today.” (arZan)
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Best Urban Art Photos 2009
In addition to my “Urban Art Exhibition Favorites 2009” and the very nice collection of grandiose artwork-shots on ekosystem, I will present you my top outdoor urban art photos today.
It was hard to decide the photos for this collection, because I have photo-archive with ten-thousands of more or less good street art and graffiti shots…
To cut a long story short, here are my best urban art photos of 2009:
bronco poster - street art
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Urban Art Exhibition Favorites 2009
Yeah, it’s time for end-of-the-year reviews! Some days ago, my friend Luna Park from New York posted her 30 favorites of the year. She is quite a renowned street art and graffiti photographer, so her list of favorite pieces, moments or shots is interesting for everyone else.
Today I will show you some of my favorite urban art exhibition shots, I took in the soon ending year. It was very hard, but I think, that I made a good decision. Let my know your opinions!
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