/street art

For years now, I document street art in Berlin and other European metropolises like Paris, London, Barcelona and Madrid. What I learned     is, when you are deep in that multicultural and highly creative public art scene, you want to get in touch with its protagonists, with the   people behind those sometimes funny or political street artworks. You want to know faces, want to see how they work, want to feel the adrenalin… (©Brenna Urban, Berlin 2010)

The first part of the Urban Artists in Action series presenting graffiti and street artists at work was mainly taken during 2010 in Berlin and London. A selection of 49 photographic works of that series was shown at Westberlin Gallery in Berlin, including photos of Buff Diss (AUS), Titi Freak (BRA), Czarnobyl (GER), Dan Kitchener (GB), Ben Eine (GB), Emess (GER), FinDAC (GB), Herakut (GER), Augustine Kofie (US), Mode2 (UK), Nychos (AUT), Run Don’t Walk (ARG), Remi/Rough (GB) and Morten Andersen (DK).

The idea behind the Urban Artists in Action series is not just to photograph finished artworks, pieces, paintings as you can find them everywhere in the interwebs, but to document the artist while working. For that reason, the artist himself or sometimes his creative environment is focused not the artwork. It’s all about discovering the person behind those often fantastic wall paintings or drawings…

source and more : .urbanart-photography.eu/urban-artists-in-action-1