Graffiti
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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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Murphy’s Law: London Underground
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceSome publications don’t document graffiti from the outside, they emerge from within it. Murphy’s Law gathers four years of movement between London and various international cities, tracing a practice rooted in friendship, risk and persistence. Between 2022 and 2025, Murf captured the graffiti of his circle as it unfolded across streets, train lines and shifting […]
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Sous Press’ 18 — Rap & Graffiti Stories
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceSome magazines quietly document the cultures that grow outside the spotlight. Sous Press’ is one of them: a French fanzine dedicated to rap and graffiti, capturing the energy of these scenes through writing and analog photography. Edited by Hobbzzzze and Mr. Bougayaud, each 32-page issue explores the people and stories shaping contemporary hip-hop culture. Issue […]
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Gotham #2 — Voices of Hip-Hop
La Bellevilloise 19-21 Rue Boyer, Paris, Paris, FranceHip-hop has always been a culture of voices, streets, and stories. Gotham magazine captures these moments, blending interviews, features, and portraits of artists, journalists, and activists shaping the scene today. The second issue highlights key figures and networks, offering an insider perspective on rap, graffiti, performance, and independent publishing—documenting the scene while celebrating its diversity […]
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Chaze — Sndtrk1: A Graffiti Archive
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceSome books begin with a discovery. Forgotten negatives, found by chance, bringing back fragments of a life once lived. For Chaze, this moment marked the return of more than thirty years spent inside graffiti: an art form as marginal as it is deeply rooted in personal and collective memory. Through Sndtrk1, Chaze revisits his journey […]
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Orléans by Names — City Traces
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceTraces of a forgotten scene often survive where no one is looking — in shoeboxes, private albums, and analogue negatives left untouched for decades. This project returns to the graffiti culture of Orléans, reconstructing fragments of a local movement shaped in the shadow of Paris, yet rooted in its own territory. Built from personal archives […]
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ML7 — Underground Lisbon
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceSome scenes leave few traces, not because they were absent, but because they were never meant to be preserved. Beneath Lisbon, along the metro lines, a parallel history of graffiti unfolded over three decades, written in motion, erased, and rewritten again. ML7 brings together images from more than 60 contributors, many of them previously unpublished, […]
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When Letters Meet – Skript Letter Jam #4
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceIn a moment when graphic cultures increasingly overlap without fully meeting, Skript Letter Jam #4 explores what happens when the culture of the letter becomes a shared space rather than a separate practice. Typography, calligraphy, graffiti and letter painting are brought together not as a comparison, but as a live encounter between gestures, rhythms and […]
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Cut, Drawn, Printed — Flask × catcentcat
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceLe Grand Jeu hosts the launch of a collaboration between two Parisian practices that meet on cloth: the drawing of writer Flask — shaped by the most radical years of graffiti, from the metros to the tunnels — and the eye and press of catcentcat, analog photographer seen in the docuseries With One Eye Open […]
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Tilt – Never Ending Story: Throw-ups, Traces & Erasure
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceDuring lockdown, Tilt — the Toulouse graffiti artist known worldwide for his work — set himself one rule: a throw-up a day. More than 700 appeared across his city, only to vanish soon after under layers of buff paint. Never Ending Story grew out of that obsessive, ephemeral practice — a deep dive into the […]