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Giulia 'BLocal' Riva's passion for graffiti & street art is well known. Her mission? To unveil the artistic and rebellious heart of cities through an independent street art blog BLocal, which has become the media partner of important street art festivals around Europe. That's why we are more than happy to welcome her for a […]

From May 1 to 4, 2025, don't miss the first edition of the Art & Place Conference in Saarbrücken, which gathers a selected list of international experts from the fields of street art, graffiti and public art. The program features speakers from Europe, America and Australia including Joey Skaggs, one of the founders of culture […]

What do we really see when we look at the banlieue? Concrete? Tension? Style? Noise? La Vie des Blocs by Jean-Michel Landon is the result of twelve years spent walking, listening, and observing from within. Shot in black and white, built from 123 photographs and raw testimonies, it offers a patient and poetic counter-narrative to […]

At a time when the hip-hop scene in France is as vibrant as it is fragmented, supporting emerging artists requires more than just visibility—it takes structure, tools, and spaces for exchange. Hip-Hop Corner is part of a broader initiative led by Le RIF and its members to support the professional development of hip-hop artists across […]

What does it mean to collect what others discard? To turn street waste into visual poetry, fetish, or evidence of urban decay? Trucs is a book that shouldn’t exist—and yet, here it is. Shot and assembled by Michaël Barek, with texts by Mehdi Belhouaïchat, this 84-page object is part photo essay, part anthropological drift through […]

In a world where independent publications—books, magazines, zines, and flyers—are proliferating at an unprecedented pace, the question of their preservation has become a pressing challenge. For over two decades, Christian Omodeo has been exploring the fringes of publishing. An art historian by training, an obsessive collector, and a book advisor, he tracks down, documents, and […]

Graffiti wasn't always celebrated. In the 80s and 90s, it was criminalized, erased, and dismissed as "vandalism." And yet, this raw, illegal energy was the spark behind many of today's most respected urban artists. With Vandalisme, Tarek Ben Yakhlef — author of the cult book Paris Tonkar (1991, reprinted in 2024) — returns to the […]

What do monikers, anti-fascist censorship, imaginary birds, and cinephile graffiti have in common? All are part of the sprawling and unconventional Fonds documentaire de l’Amicale du Hibou-Spectateur — a collective archive exploring forms of “wild” writing in public space. The Owl-Watcher Society (Amicale du Hibou-Spectateur) is an informal research group launched in 2021 by Jiem […]

The Hip-Hop Book Fair Le Déclic is back for its second edition! Organized by Cité Carter in collaboration with Marques Avenue, this unique event puts the spotlight on hip-hop literature in all its forms: essays, biographies, novels, graphic novels, fanzines, and writings by artists from the movement. What to expect:– A curated selection of books […]

Papermundi, together with Driver, bring us the first French translation of Game Over, the raw and unfiltered memoir of Harlem’s legendary drug lord, Azie Faison. At just 21, Faison was earning over half a million dollars a week. But by 1990, he had left the drug trade behind, determined to tell his story — long […]

Drifting through squats, punk gigs, courtrooms and factory shifts, Wazo delivers a raw, fast-paced memoir of life on the margins in 1990s Brest — a city as gritty as it is poetic. In Pour tout l’or de Brest, he recounts his wild youth as a “clown, delinquent and tightrope walker,” caught between rebellion and survival, […]