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.
“Just taking Pictures” - Urban Photography
With joy, I read a few days ago, that one of the most important photographers of the graffiti and street art movement will host an exhibition!
You can win one out of three limited urban photo-postcards by Just! - Join the Contest!
For 10 years, the Berlin-based urban artist and photographer Just documents in brilliant pictures, the highlights of urban art and culture. This October, he will present his finest portraits of artists and street art photographs for the first time!
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Photos: Pisa73 - “Grains of Wrath”
Do you remember the stencil art show “Grains of Wrath” by Pisa73 I recommended to you some days before? Today I had some time and hit the road to get photos from that urban art exhibition.
One interesting part of the new artworks is, that Pisa73 evolved the classic, often planar stencil art technique to a rough speckled form. Hence I found it really interesting to inspect the spray-paintings, which by the way focus on institutional and corporate authority and its traditional misuse of power.
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Urban Top Shots #4
This is the fourth time, that I took a deep look into the Urban Artcore Flickr group and decided the three urban top photos of the last seven days.
With parkour from Philadelphia, graffiti from Sao Paulo and urban art from Rome, the very inspiring shots of today’s selection come from all over the globe!
I love them:
parkour philadelphia
Philadelphia Art Museum, by Showboat Dropface
Do art, no war, by Brunno
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First of all I have to say, that there are about 110 photos of the “Graffiti meets Thalys” event in my flickr photo-stream. Take a look!
Announced were only the four famous European graffiti artists Seak One (Cologne), Sozy One (Brussels), JonOne 156 (Paris) and Zedz (Amsterdam), but in the end there were additionally Nunca (Sao Paulo) and Opak (Paris).
Because photos alone are not enough to get to know the artists, here is some background info about these internationally known artists:
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Nils Mueller - Illegal Graffiti Actions
Today, famous graffiti photographer Nils Mueller opens his new solo exhibition in Hamburg!
Nils Mueller is one of the best illegal graffiti action photographers in Europe. With his documentary photos, he invites the spectators to a fascinating trip through European metropolis.
The show at the Mono Conzept Gallery presents small and large format photographs from Nils Müller’s book “Blütezeit – Prime Time Of My Life”.
Opening is today, 7pm. The exhibition runs until October 17th.
Graffiti meets Thalys Photos
As I wrote two days ago, international high-speed train operator Thalys invited me to document the “Graffiti meets Thalys” live event, which took place at “Gare du Nord” (North Station) in Paris yesterday.
Four Six well-known and famous European writers - Seak One (Cologne), Sozy One (Brussels), JonOne 156 (Paris) and Zedz (Amsterdam) - had to paint a train as fast as Thalys will soon take to get from Paris to Cologne or Amsterdam, 3 hours and 15 minutes.
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Urban Top Shots #3
The next part of my “Urban Top Shots” series comes this week with three very inspiring photos of urban landscapes and abandoned places.
For those who don’t already know: The “Urban Top Shots” series 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 and maybe you can find your photo here next week!
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Talk to Mr. Ed Templeton
Ed Templeton is not only pro skateboarder, contemporary artist, painter, writer and photographer - no - he is one of the “Beautiful Losers”! In addition to that, he has his own skateboard company, named “Toy Machine” and belongs to the hip creative head of our time.
Also in Berlin artworks of him were shown a few week ago, when he exhibited along with Pettibon and McGee at the Circle Culture Gallery.
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“Graffiti Argentina” in Paris and Berlin
South America appears to be in vogue for graffiti and street artists at the moment. Hardly a week goes by without reports about new projects, photos or videos from the fourth-largest continent.
But mostly that are reports about established and/ or famous international artist, who made a trip there. What is not so much coming to light are the local artists - but there’s an end to it! “Graffiti Argentina” is called a book by Maximiliano Ruiz, which focuses on the more unknown artists.
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Urban Morphing
“Collapse Times” is the name of an interesting urban time lapse video clip by Luis Simione and Marcelo Demari. In contrast to these two city portraits, this short film’s focus is not the city character, but a special morphing effect.
This effect makes the night light time lapse more dynamic and livelier. Take a look and enjoy urban feeling!
