Between 2005 and 2007 I took nearly 450 pictures of street art and graffiti around the Dublin area, primarily in the city centre and the South-Eastern suburbs. At first using a number of throwaway cameras and then an Olympia digital camera. I was hoping to capture a little bit of Dublin graffiti social history with the fanciful idea of putting a book together of all my snaps. I soon lost interest but thought it would be worthwhile to upload the best snaps here so they don’t go to complete waste. Enjoy.
The fifth feature is on the graff crews UEK (Underground Elements Krew) and RFA (Ready For Action) of which CIST, GONER, MAK and BAR were members.
(c) Jay Carax
(c) Jay Carax
(c) Jay Carax
(c) Jay Carax
(c) Jay Carax
(c) Jay Carax.
(c) Jay Carax
Click on the book for more.
Click on the book for more.
Donal
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gone is in my opinion the best artist of that time next to grift, he unlike grift reinveted himself as goner then renog following a court appearance. super crew aswell cist was and still is so prolific
somewhere out there is a documentary about graffiti in dublin during the 90s, when it was still a very small world, and it relies on a marginal crew, but with a few tales.
When I next return to dublin and have access to my archive, i’ll post a few photos from then, and perhaps also the story of “viva zapa” on Ranelagh rd…. much misunderstood.
would love to see all 450 photos
[…] Apologies for the quality of the below snap, it was taken from the other side of the Liffey and daylight was starting to fade. For the sheer size of the piece its worth a look, must be at least thirty foot long. Sam has previously puvlished a seried of articles on Dublin grafitti artists, and the entry for UEK can be found here. […]