GRAFFITI & STREET ART
Street art is photography's most impatient collaborator — it appears overnight, fades in weeks and gets painted over without warning. Documenting it is its own form of urgency.
This gallery collects murals, tags and urban interventions from Barcelona's neighbourhoods — Poblenou, El Raval, Gràcia — and from cities like London, where artists like Mr Cenz turn entire walls into something that has no business being that good. The work belongs to the artists. The photographs belong to bCLPhoto.
The gallery that was never meant to be in a gallery.
Woman walking past a colourful geometric mural in Barcelona, street art photography
Couple watching rainbow paint dripping down a wall at Plaça dels Àngels, el Raval, near MACBA, Barcelona
Street Art by British MrCenz (@mrcenzone), street photography in London
Street eye in London, street photography
Tintin and Snowy in Brick Lane street art, street photography in London
Neon bottle outline over a geometric blue and pink mural on a London brick wall
Street art in Brick Lane, street photography in London
Leaving London, the walls change accent but not attitude. Brooklyn murals, East Village icons, a rabbit on a corner in Ghent — each one photographed knowing it might not exist next month. That impermanence is half the reason to shoot them.
Justice Everywhere graffiti, street photography in New York
Wall art in Park Slope, Brooklyn, street photography in New York
Mural next to the NY Martial Arts Academy. Street photography in New York
Black and white rabbit mural on a brick corner in Ghent, a bicycle parked below
Yaffa Cafe Mural Graffiti in St Marks Place, East Village, street photography in New York
Bold Wink, David Byrne-designed bike rack on Lafayette Avenue, Street photography in New York
Huge drawing of a man in a suit on the wall of a factory in Ghent
Mural at West 21st Street and 8th Avenue, Street photography in New York
Man carrying wooden boards past LIBRE graffiti in Barcelona, street photography
Walls That Talk
Street art changes faster than any other subject we shoot. On the blog we explore the neighbourhoods where it lives, like the lanes and terraces of El Born.
El Born Barcelona street art, sun-worn terraces and artisan shopfronts, photographed on foot through one of Barcelona's oldest, most lived-in neighbourhoods.