Before Calligraffiti became a global language, there was just a kid from Amsterdam filling a black book with tags, outlines, and borrowed tricks from the masters. Shoe’s Black Book − Graffiti in the 1980s is the facsimile of that raw beginning: the years 1985–1987, when Niels Shoe Meulman learned, absorbed, imitated, failed, tried again — […]

In a city where walls remember more than archives, some images return to the street to restore what time tries to erase. Since 2021, the collective 12/12 has been creating twelve murals across Paris and its suburbs in tribute to the rapper Népal and his album Adios Bahamas. Born from grief and friendship, these works […]

Some figures return like markers on a map: traces of where a culture first learned to move. In the mid-80s Paris HIP-HOP scene, graffiti, dance, and rap were one and the same. DIKSA (GT–TNB) grew up inside that momentum, shaping a graphic style as coded as it is enduring. His first fanzine, My definition of […]

Over the course of two nights, Manhattan’s Lower East Side becomes both setting and subject in time in the city, a photo zine shot entirely by New York–based photographer Alain Levitt. Reduced to streets, faces, movements, and pauses, the neighborhood appears as a sequence of fleeting moments, fragments of a city experienced at walking pace, […]

At a time when rap is global yet deeply rooted in local scenes, these two books offer a clear way to navigate its complexity. From Chicago and Atlanta to London, Paris, and Marseille, rap continues to evolve through cities, sounds, and cultural exchanges that shape contemporary music worldwide. Published by Combo Éditions within the Music […]

Some stories survive not through archives, but through the scenes that carried them. Active between Belgium, France, and the Netherlands, Liza (1958–2001) was a defining yet often overlooked figure of European electronic and hardcore culture. From classical training to tape experimentation, from New Wave and EBM to rave and hardcore, her trajectory unfolded within underground […]

Before becoming a movement, a scene often begins with a few teenagers testing the city. In the early 1990s, Bordeaux saw the emergence of a graffiti scene shaped by freedom, intuition, and close contact with the urban environment. Bordeaux 90, Naissance d’une scène graff looks back at that decisive decade, when a local visual language […]

Dérives picturales brings together graffiti works that step outside established codes. Photographed mainly in Paris, with incursions into Lille, Nantes, Brussels, Berlin, and Athens, the fanzine traces an alternative urban landscape shaped by unusual forms and visual languages. Driven by a passion for graffiti and modern and contemporary art, the author focuses on so-called “anti-style” […]

In contemporary art spaces shaped by visibility and power, some gestures choose disruption. White Hat — “Hacking the Systems” documents illegal banner interventions carried out in major art institutions, from FIAC and Art Basel to Tate Modern and the New Museum. Co-written by Marc-Antoine Léval and art critic Henrique Grimaldi, the book revisits the Please […]

Over Paris, closed shutters turn into silent witnesses of the city’s everyday life. Rideaux de Fer #1, the first issue of the magazine edited by Éditions Quartier Rouge, transforms over 500 photographs of Parisian storefronts into a visual archive, tracing the hidden textures and rhythms of urban life. Edited and photographed by Nespo, with a […]

In the streets where people gather and voices rise, photography becomes a witness. Untilted25’ captures the rhythm, intensity, and fleeting gestures of public demonstrations across four European cities, turning ephemeral moments into enduring images. From Paris and Berlin to Marseille and Lisbon, each frame speaks of presence, energy, and civic pulse. Photographer Marina documents 2025’s […]