Urban Art Photography: Captivating Street Art Images

Update: Here are the winners of the Urban Photo-Contest 2010… Now it’s over! The Urban Art Photo Contest 2010 ended with round about 500 submitted photos by around 200 people…that’s great and I’m very happy about it! In the next days, we three jurors - Luna Park from New York, RJ from London and me from Berlin - will decide the five winning urban art shots, which will win the great prize packages the three big supporters - Montana Cans, Publikat Publishing and Urban Stylistics - provided. ...

As a faithful reader, you may noticed that the Australian tape artist BUFFdiss is in Berlin for a few month and that I was several times on the run with him… Yesterday, I met up with him and the famous French graffiti artist Nelio (Those of you, who already visited Lyon should know him!) to explore an abandoned warehouse in the south of Berlin. It was a great day - we had a lot of fun and took nice photos of rough walls and nice new artworks! Here are some of the shots I took… ...

Update: Here are the winners of the Urban Photo-Contest 2010… Now it’s time, the Urban Artcore’s second international Urban Art Photo Contest starts! It was a hard preparation, but finally everything should be fine and now it’s your turn: Street Art, Graffiti & Action What we (the jury and me) want to see are impressing photographs of street and graffiti artworks as well as urban artists in action or similar things like colorful atmospheres in abandoned areas, breathtaking impressions of public artworks, etc… Important to mention is that superficially not the artwork itself counts, but the photo’s quality (style, light, atmosphere, interesting angle, etc.). That means we want your top shots! ...

Update: Here are the winners of the Urban Photo-Contest 2010… As mentioned four weeks ago, the second Urban Art Photo Contest will take place this month, strictly speaking it will start next Monday, July 19th, 2010. But that’s not the only new info… The Jury I’m proud to announce the juror’s of this year’s Urban Art Photo Contest. These are two people, you probably all know: Luna Park - Luna, from New York, is a librarian, progressive street art and graffiti enthusiast and maybe one of the most active urban art documentors worldwide. ...

What an amazing weather! The sun is everywhere, it is hot and I had some time to walk through Berlin-Kreuzberg for taking some photos of Berlin’s summer street art. Today I decided twelve of them to give you a nice insight into what happens on the streets in Germany’s capital. There are, in addition to some great stencil spray paintings by Emess and C215, a lot of paper artworks by Alias, Mean Marek and the three Israeli street artists Foma, The Drip Up and Klone, who recently visited Berlin, and a new piece by famous graffiti artist Roa, who is in town at the moment. Furthermore some rather inspiring urban artworks by less known artists leaped to my camera’s focus… ...

In addition to the nice Wooster Collective meet-up and the Mode2 live-painting I was on the run with Australian tape artist BUFFdiss. Armed with some rolls crepe tape and wearing some darker clothes, he created two nice tape artworks on an old industrial area…and while he taped around, I took some dark action photos! BUFFdiss started creating tape artworks several years ago and moved in that way on from the traditional graffiti and its spray-cans…it was really impressing how fast he made the artworks ready and at the same time we both were impressed with the reactions by some passing people, who were really wondering about what he did… ...

As I mentioned some days ago, famous graffiti artist Mode2 painted live in Berlin yesterday! The outstanding artists created a great mural artwork at the “Jacki Terrasse” in Berlin and I was allowed to take some photos of the otherwise camera-shy artist and his doings… It was really great to see how easily he painted that rough wall just with brushes. The new wall now shows a collection of different rawish characters and creates for that reason a very comfortable urban atmosphere. The great thing about Mode2 and his mural artwork is, that he painted everything without having any sketch on paper or some thing like that…I was really impressed! ...

To put you in the right mood for my upcoming urban art photo contest, I updated my collection of top urban art photographers yesterday! Now there are 20 more or less well-known, but really great photographers on the list - new are Jonas Lara, Edward Nightingale and John F. Conn. In addition to their fight against the incredible transitoriness of graffiti and street art, these top-list photographers should help you to get some inspiration for new urban-inspired photos and thereby for a good placement in the contest. ...

Maybe you realized in some previous articles, that I’m not really a fan of Apple and for that reason it’s not my intention to promote new Apple products or something like that… Nevertheless, I would like inform the Apple users who certainly are under my readership - No, you don’t have to out yourself! - that there’s in addition to that urban art guide app, which is available in Berlin and Hamburg, another new street art app for the iPhone. The name of that new street art guide is “All City” and its aim is to collect and present interesting street art spot around the world… ...

Alien-like creatures waked up in the streets of Tel Aviv several years ago, when internationally known street artist Klone began to paste-up his extraterrestrial artworks. Now he’s in Berlin and placed some new colorful paper artworks. Formerly known as graffiti artist Make, Klone started pasting hand-drawn paper characters, which should replace his tags and throw-ups, about 5 to ix years ago… The predator characters developed after a long process, when I’ve been working with my oneline drawings, trying to define a character in one line and parralel I was working on series of more realistic paintings of real predators incorporating them into my streetwork, I wanted to create something new, something that might make people think a bit different, so i came up with charaters that combine the animal and human features, people got disturbed and eventually embraced the new and the weird species in the city. (Interview with Klone) ...