It all begun with the Tunnel, one of London's authorized graffiti areas, discovered one rainy afternoon on my way from point A to point B and frequented ever since.
The place is quite surreal - music playing in the background (ever so often sacral music) and colorful walls - every inch conveying a message. On my numerous visits, I would meet a few good painters with skills and passion, a few more doing a pretty lousy job and gangs of weird kids with nothing else to do but destroy the hard work of others and... photographed them all.
This site is a documentary of wall paintings - no matter what the techniques and materials used. It starts in the Tunnel but does not end there because, while many people ask the question whether graffiti is art or vandalism and the government actually calls it a crime, it remains mainly and most importantly a form of communication.
Varied in style and standards, these works are short-lived. Graffiti change almost everyday - this blog means to preserve them and it does not really matter if we look at them and see art or vandalism. After all some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.*
*Statements by Banksy in Wall and Piece
