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Adios Bahamas: 12/12 Across the City
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceIn 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 […]
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My definition of a Bboy!: DIKSA and the Roots of HIP-HOP
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceSome 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 […]
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Time in the city: Walking the Night
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceOver 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, […]
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Rap Monde & Rap Styles – Global Sounds
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceAt 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 […]
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Loopera: A Life in the Margins
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceSome 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 […]
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Bordeaux90 — Birth of a Writing Scene
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceBefore 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 […]
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Dérives Picturales : Anti-Style Practices
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceDérives 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” […]
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White Hat — Inside a Hacked Art World
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceIn 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 […]
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Rideaux de Fer #1 — Paris Behind Closed Shutters
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceOver 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 […]
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Untilted25‘ – Streets in Motion
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceIn 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 […]
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28,000 km — Stories from the Road
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceSince childhood, a pursuit of intensity has guided the author on a 28,000 km bicycle journey from New York to the foot of Mount Hua, traveling without GPS or hotels, as both clown and pirate, accompanied by old friends. The illustrated narrative, 28000km des geoles du Queens au pied du mont Hua, captures the energy of […]
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Queens Boulevard – A Winter Walk Across New York
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceQueens Boulevard, a major New York thoroughfare stretching over 11 kilometers, walked end to end in winter. With his medium format 6×6 analog camera, Simon Souchois captures storefronts, signs, and urban markers encountered along the way, assembling a visual cartography of the city. With little pedestrian traffic, the boulevard functions almost as an urban highway, […]
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