Street Art
I have been interested in street art for some years now. Started all in Berlin where the famous “Fist” was starting to get all over the city. The Fleischerei was my first home base for stencil production and getting inspirational ideas.
Getting fully into digital photography I started to document street art wherever I traveled, but most of all in my current home city, Vienna. I try to focus on unusual spots or places where street art is just about to get recognizable or is in dispute because our western understanding of urbanity is not yet common sense.
You can find all of my street art fotos here.
Places I have raided so far include: Lviv (Ukraine), Sofia (Bulgaria), Zagreb (Croatia), Bratislava and Kosice (Slovakia), Havana and Santa Clara (Cuba), Jerusalem (Israel), Sarajevo and Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Debrecen (Hungary), Tripoli (Libya), not to name the usual urban spots in Europe like Berlin, Barcelona, etc.
I am producing my own stuff as well, mainly working with rasterizing techniques in combination with golden frames and focusing on political statements which I like to blend with a hint of estethic beaty. I am a big fan of classical propaganda, especially posters and billboards from Cuba (OSPAAL), North Korea, Libya, USSR and former East Block Countries. As the marketing machinery of western politics more and more resemble this styles and they start using similar methods, ueberhyped media events like the current US president election with Obama as the main figure is also on my watch list.
