French graffiti artists have been setting the bar for quite a while. While we in the Netherlands have a tradition of readable graffiti or abstract, France artists embraced the wild style and embraced it as their own. One of my personal favourite artists and a prime example of mind-blowing French graffiti is Parisian artist Dja’louz. Inspired by Arabic and Asian calligraphy, Dja’louz developed a unique 3d style which most of the times he applies in site specific ways. We had the honor to ask…Read More »
The amazing Alice Pasquini has been awing us since we first laid eyes on her works. The Italian artist has a strong style with clear topics; everyday life with a focus on femininity. It only has been a year or so since we’ve heard from her but it seems like her work skyrocketed both on and offline. Since a few days Alice opened a new solo show in the 999 contemporary gallery in Rome called ‘Cinderella pissed me off’, a title perfectly fitting Alice…Read More »
Swiss born street artist Bustart is inseparably connected to the starting of CFYE. In 2006 – 2008 Kaymir and I roamed the streets of our hometown Amsterdam taking pictures of the tons of stickers, stencils, paste-ups and installations that were out here. Through Flickr we discovered that half of these were the works of Bustart and that he (surprisingly) wasn’t even from Amsterdam but from Basel! It turned out that Bust fell in love with Amsterdam a long time ago and even though he…Read More »
Today it’s one year ago that an earthquake and tsunami shook up the Japanse pacific coast of Tōhoku. Last year we showed you the pictures shot on that day by our friend Charlie Kirk. To commemorate this tragedy we have the honor to show you the images of Lee Basford (you might remember the images he shot in Kushiro, Japan). Lee has been concentrating much more on his photography recently and slowly building a versitile…Read More »
We haven’t featured too much Asian graffiti yet, but I’m hoping that is changing as we’re getting more and more contacts in the far-east countries. Just recently we received an e-mail from the Gantz5 graffiti crew from Macau. Macua, located in South-East China was, the oldest European colony in China untill handed over in 1999. The region has a high degree of autonomy (much like Hong-Kong) and is known for its lavish casino’s, making it a sort of Las Vegas of the east.
The Gantz5…Read More »
It’s been a while since we had a talk with our friend Priest! The southern US based street artist has kept himself quite busy since we’ve last interviewed him and never fails to stir some controversy with one thing or the other. Priest is one of the most genuine artists we’ve got to know, so this little catch-up was long overdue! So how are things going? Did you sell-out already? Life is good! No outstanding warrants and I haven’t sold…Read More »
Since Gijs Vanhee is really kicking some nautical ass over in Belgium (click these or those underlined bits of text for some top notch examples), we felt the urge to have a little chat with the captain himself. Sketches, murals and canvases; apparently you have quite some creative energy to be released. When did Gijs realise he had some talent to offer? That’s a hard question. I can’t really put a date on it, I like drawing and inventing things since I was very…Read More »
Catalonian photographer Gemma Gonzalez had our attention since the first time we saw one of her self-portraits, several years ago. We immediately realized that there’s much more to her than a pretty face; her conceptual self-portraits always seem to capture the right mood, which she achieves by her own facial expressions and poses. But also her styling, composition and post-processing add towards very personal and intimate picture. Omnipresent is a touch of darkness, adding a haze of mystery to both her persona as her…Read More »
London based photographer / videographer Robin Bharaj is a real multi-talent. The self-taught artist with Indian roots was well on his way to become an IT specialist, but as soon as he started doing the 9-5 thing he realized it wasn’t for him. He made the brave decision to focus on a creative career instead and embarked on an endless journey of exploring, perfecting and applying his creative talents to real-world situations. He started out shooting pictures the UK Grime scene which had the…Read More »
I stumbled across the works of England based photographer (and super multi creative) Lee Basford in our Shuttercrack group on Flickr. With his images shot on the Japanese Island of Hokkaido he tells us the beautiful story of an old school working horse farm. What might seem to be the simple life is actually hard labour that requires a great set of skills. It might be hard to grasp for those caught up in the paper…Read More »