Graffiti Brighton: September 2013

GRAFFITI BRIGHTON

Some street art and graffiti lasts for years, but much is removed or painted over after only a short period of time. Graffiti Brighton, I hope, provides a record - snapshots in time (I aim to take around 100 photos every autumn) - of some of the street art and graffiti to be found in Brighton & Hove, UK. I, personally, know nothing about street art or graffiti, not about any meanings or symbolism in the patterns and pictures and texts, nor about who might be wielding the chalks, brushes, or spray cans. But, clearly, there is a world of difference between some kinds of street art painted with skill and in sympathy with its canvas, so to speak, and other kinds of graffiti which is no more than crude scribbling. Whereas much of the former is commissioned and enhances the look of otherwise drab streetscapes, much of the latter can be considered vandalism. As a photographer, I feel a natural inclination towards the former, well-designed murals which offer bright colours and eye-catching subjects, but Graffiti Brighton is as much a record of the vandalistic graffiti as it is of the glorious wall paintings, and, incidentally, of the city’s streetscapes. All photograph titles are, idiosyncratically, my own. NB: Simply to save text space, I have used the name Brighton as a shorthand form of Brighton & Hove throughout. (Photographs copyrighted: permission required for use - charges may apply.)

Graffiti Brighton

30 Sept 2013

Round the bend - Hollingdean Lane, Brighton

Chocolate fence top - Hollingdean Lane, Brighton

White triangles under ivy - Hollingdean Lane, Brighton

29 Sept 2013

Charley’s wave - Saunders Park, Brighton

Tangerine flaps - Saunders Park, Brighton

Engulfed by yellow slime - Saunders Park, Brighton

Black’n mauve on silver - Saunders Park, Brighton

28 Sept 2013

Some sloping perspective - Saunders Park, Brighton

School greenboard - Saunders Park, Brighton

Green’n yellow flint - Saunders Park, Brighton

27 Sept 2013

Mermaid and friends - Saunders Park, Brighton

Brown oblongs, grey squares - Saunders Park, Brighton

Pink’n orange flint - Saunders Park, Brighton

26 Sept 2013

Still a piece left - Baker Street, Brighton

Wring the revo - Baker Street, Brighton

Flannery and the redhead - Baker Street, Brighton

25 Sept 2013

Just do it - Beaconsfield Road, Brighton

Fox with fat bushy tail - Beaconsfield Road, Brighton

Wik on viaduct - Beaconsfield Road, Brighton

24 Sept 2013

Pedestrian push and wait - Beaconsfield Road, Brighton

Wall with a pink heart - Beaconsfield Road, Brighton

Pipe and grill - Beaconsfield Road, Brighton

Rob’s parking meter - Beaconsfield Road, Brighton