London is blessed with some of the finest Graffiti tags in the world and nowhere more so than the Spitalfields area of East London. Week after week, they come and they go, so to record them when you see them is wise or it’s likely you will never see them again!
I only have a handful of my favourites taken over the years, they are works of art in their own right. These, as with the London Shop Windows, are not regarded in the same light as my main body of work, I have just recorded what was in front of me. They are a homage to the graffiti artists.
One of my favourite tags is a crop of Graffiti Art 33, which is so impressionistic. Graffiti Art 63 is an ever changing canvas on the garage doors off Columbia Rd, I have recorded this many times over the years, sometimes it is amazing and other time I think it’s ruined with too many tags. I do appreciate that this is not how it works, but nevertheless, when it’s good record it, because if you don’t you never will!
I am often travelling around all of the London boroughs of this city and I take photographs of the old vintage hand painted advertising signs, some on display for only a few weeks in between replacement of new digital signs and others hidden behind buildings or crumbling structures. These are a part of the history of London and will soon be gone forever.
Graffiti areas around London – Camden – Brick Lane – Hackney Wick – East Dulwich – Spitalfields – Shoreditch – Bethnal Green – Walthamstow – Brixton – Penge – Peckham – Waterloo –
Saatchi Galleries – BEYOND THE STREETS – in 2023, at Kings Road, London, is one of the best exhibition I have seen in years and exhibited some of the worlds best graffiti artists and paid homage to the Punk Rock era. See the video I made on the day of the King’s Coronation 2023 below.
Vintage hand-painted advertising – these can be seen anywhere around London, Great Britain and the world.
SO KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN.
