The infamous Lastplak collective has been making the streets a better place for over ten years! To celebrate, the team of artists have released a book with ten years of Lastplak. The book perfectly illustrates how immensely productive this Rotterdam based team of artist has been: 320 pages covering from 2001 up to 2011! All the different members have a long history in graffiti and / or other art forms and they all bring a different style to the table. This…Read More »
The name Terry O’ Neill might ring a bell with you all. The legendary celebrity photographer has had everyone who was anyone in the 60′s and 70′s in front of his camera. Brigitte Bardot, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Audrey Hepburne, Frank Sinatra, Clint Eastwood and many more iconic names have been immortalized by Terry, resulting in picturs that are at least as iconic and familair as the models. The Rook & Raven Gallery in London organized an amazing show based on Terry’s work….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 »
Mad love for our friend A1one! The artist from Tehran, Iran is a pioneer in Persian graffiti and street art. He’s a true mixed media artist and creates work from ‘traditional’ graffiti, calligraphy / caligraffiti to stickers and stencils. His style seems to be a unique combination of heritage, isolation and skills. Since the last time we had an interview with A1one we’ve had the honour to meet him in person during his tour through Europe, but that…Read More »
Hong Kong based Timothy Cheng almost never leaves the house without his camera. The Chinese city is renowned for its expansive skyline and a population of seven million people. This fact makes Hong Kong one of the most densely populated areas in the world. For street photographers it must feel like paradise on earth. Cheng picked up on his street photography back in 2007 and rapidly developed a really nice style
“Everyday, I like to look out what is happening around me….Read More »
As the Crow Flies exhibit...
Berlin based gallery and screen-printer Mother Drucker has (once again) joined forces with East London based charity Art Against Knives(AAK) to raise money for their future youth community based projects. The exhibition, ‘as the crow flies’ will take place in the AAK gallery in London and will feature artists like Penny, Various & Gould and Victor Ash. AAK was born out…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 »
Creating the worlds largest painting on a 100,000-square-foot concrete dome covering up radioactive debri on an island in the great pacific, funded and executed by crowdsourcing. That’s the Bikini lines project which sprung from the dome of Christian Forrestell, living in Tokyo. In his search for obscure places Christian stubmled upon the Cactus Dome on the Marshall islands. The dome is a perfect example of humanity’s self-destructive ways, as it was created to cover up radioactive debri created by nuclear…Read More »