currently holidaying taking pics of graffiti around a new city. a lot of cool stuff around. anyone else like shooting graf? will upload some more and eventually dump all photos on my tumblr next week. http://quest1on.tumblr.com/
critique my amateur photos and post some of yours if anyone has any.
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Going to throw up some stuff I found in Hong Kong not too long ago
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>>2866292
can dig this. do you shoot hong kong often?
>>2866292
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>>2866294
First time I had ever been there, a birthday trip to Japan and HK. Great fun shooting the city, both in film and digital!
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>>2866292
MAD SOCIETY KAAAAANGS
resize your shit you faggot
max size 1mb and longest side 1000
but anyways, i shoot graffiti sometimes, but you have to be careful.
if you run an insta of graffit in your town, then shoot away
but if you're a 'photographer' and just shoot graffiti, thats equivalent in my mind to shooting paintings. you have to capture something interesting with the graffiti, not just documenting all the cool pieces you see (it's someone elses art afterall)
but i dunno i actually write so maybe my opinion is biased
These pictures have the creativity of the google street view car.
>>2866407
can you give an example
>>2866407
>but if you're a 'photographer' and just shoot graffiti, thats equivalent in my mind to shooting paintings. you have to capture something interesting with the graffiti, not just documenting all the cool pieces you see
it depends on if the shooter is aiming at photojournalism/documentation or artistic expression.
who cares... the internet killed graff.
>>2866609
>the internet killed graff
lmfao
>>2866511
>Gang violence
>Pedophiles taking a stroll
>Sexual harassment (preferably surprise ass-eating)
>Cops pinning minorities to the artwork
>People pick pocketing them Vietnamise tourists on the bad side of town
>Stoners smoking doobies
>Gorillas attacking small children
The usual shit you see in large cities really.
>>2866414
cheers this is constructive critisism hahaha
>>2866275
>muh graffiti
this meme needs to die and the Millennial nu-males who glamorize and encourage this shit should be forced to clean it up using only their toothbrushes and elbow grease.
Graffiti is 3rd world-tier and doesn't belong in the USA. Studies have shown how this shit ruins our cities and our nation, just google "broken+windows+theory"
>>2866644
under 25 lulz
>>2866779
Most are PoS
Some are fair. Some are used as some low cost promotion for artistic bravery. This one -shot in Lisboa- is the only good stuff from the painter ( name on the painting)
>>2867411
fair enough, I acknowledge there is a distinct difference between common graffiti (nigger-tier) and street art (rare but legitimate art form).
>>2866779
This post is 3rd world-tier and doesn't belong in photography.
I want to do train car graffiti one of these days. We see a lot of cool stuff coming out of Vancouver.
>>2866609
my point was that
a) there isn't any artistic expression in simply photographing graffiti
and
b) documenting graffiti is cool if you run a graff page or shoot people actually out writing
>>2866779
>millennial
>nu-male
I was going to write about why I like graffiti but I wont because it seems that you can only think in meme-words (neither of which really applies in the case of graffiti)
>>2867957
You're right. Reckless egomaniacal edgelord is far more accurate when it comes to taggers.
>>2867966
I really can't argue with that. But it's one of those things that you really have to get involved in to 'get'. But i'll briefly try to explain:
Imagine the city as a canvas. As you walk to work, to school or just around, you see pieces of art everywhere. You get to know artists, recognize their style, where they write, what ink they use and their different tags/throwies. And this canvas is constantly evolving. New pieces get put in hard-to-reach places, walls with awesome pieces get buffed, people write over others and sometimes beef ensues, out-of-towners tear a city up and OG's make rare apperances. But there is no entry to this canvas, anybody can join. But the thing is, you can't just write shit and expect to last. You'll get dissed, written over, or buffed (since you're probably writing on easy-to-get-to spots). So after your first line, you get rattled. Why would he do that to me? My tag was good wasn't it? But eventually you use this anger to get back to the page and write more, try new styles, practice with your ink and above all else, get back out there and paint.
tl;dr: For writers, graffit is like going to an art gallery where you actually know all the artists. Bonus points if you have always loved penmanship and kerning and whatnot
>>2866779
I know you're right.
>>2868009
>blue / yellow complementary colors
>all those leading lines
>brilliant composition juxtaposing the crisp and clear signage above the niggerbabble graffiti to create a commentary mixed with humor.
The political message is all about the black tide from Amsterdam's inner city (see Amsterdam Central sign on train) pushing into the suburbs and the native Europeans' white flight response. Nothing sums up this concept better than a caricature of black Africans, fresh off the boat from the Third World, arriving in sleepy Dutch villages. Notice how the graffiti text is composed at the same level as the white woman's head, implying she's thinking the very same phrase as she stares directly at the black African. The dropped knapsack and her hunched shoulders perfectly illustrate the disdain and dismay she feels in the situation.
Brilliant photo.