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Beneath the surface of Paris lies another history of graffiti. In the silence of the catacombs, thousands of signatures, messages, and silent shouts have covered the underground walls — far from museums, far from sight. KTAGS dives into this hidden world to reveal nearly three decades of tags documented in the Paris catacombs. The result […]

Beneath the polished surface of contemporary graphic culture, another current is running, built from subconscious flashes, half-formed creatures, and the unruly energy of underground illustration. Grazy Homeworks Vol. 1 lives right there, in that liminal space where imagery doesn’t need permission to exist: a visual terrain shaped by surreal impulses, childhood echoes, and the kind […]

Beneath the political noise of post-Thatcher Britain, another story was unfolding — written in marker pens, DIY flyers and illegal raves. Ghosts in the Machine, published by Alias Press, explores how a generation of disenfranchised youth found identity and cohesion through graffiti and rave culture, resisting the era’s social and political divides. Told by participant […]

Before the light became his language, Antoine Plainfossé was just a teenager with a camera, quietly collecting fragments of the world: hands, eyes, streets, shadows. Towards the Light brings together fourteen years of those moments, from Paris to Miami, expanding on his first solo show Hidden Views and tracing the slow formation of an inner […]

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” […]