graffiti
(ɡræˈfiːtiː)pl n, sing -to (-təʊ)
1. (sometimes with singular verb) drawings, messages, etc, often obscene, scribbled on the walls of public lavatories, advertising posters, etc
2. (Archaeology) archaeol inscriptions or drawings scratched or carved onto a surface, esp rock or pottery
vb, past part graffitiing or graffiting
3. (intr; often passive) to be inscribed or defaced with graffiti: the wall was graffitied with offensive material.
4. to inscribe or draw graffiti on (a wall, etc)
[C19: graffito from Italian: a little scratch, from graffio, from Latin graphium stylus, from Greek grapheion; see graft1]
grafˈfitist n
Collins English Dictionary
So often graffiti photography amounts to little more than reproducing someone else's art - the colourful images that decorate the surface of our city life. However, graffiti tells a more ancient story. Steeped in obscenity and thumbing a nose to authority it scratches a deeper itch.
kindness died
beauty and the beast
butchery
really?
love hides
risen
what lies beyond
death amongst the weed
tagged
conflict
second conflict
one way
the temple of graffiti
and in the end
