Again a project I’ve started already months ago, but that hasn’t made it to the blog yet. Until now.
Berlin is famous for its street art and bohemian/artistic way of life especially in Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain. In Helsinki, most of the “urban art” is mainly just tags, which I personally find just ugly and see as not much more than just clutter. Of course, Berlin certainly has its fair share of tags and like, too, but there’s also lots and lots of really cool graffiti and other forms of street art. Helsinki has taken (or tries to take) an idiotic zero tolerance line with graffiti, which is probably why few bother to make really cool pieces, as they will be wiped away before long (yes, an essential part of urban art is that it’s not permanent yadda yadda, but new graffiti replacing older ones is quite another story than everything being hysterically washed away the next day).
Berlin is much more relaxed with the matter and, as said, has gained a notable reputation. My oh-so-original project is to document urban art in Berlin. I won’t photograph the most famous graffiti, because that’s already been made several times by much more skilled photographers and their equipment. Instead I’ve focused on smaller-scale “Berlin-spotting”, and it’s not even strictly urban art, but all sorts of cool/funny things I’ve come across on the streets of Berlin. Hence the tag “street art” is a bit misleading, but maybe we can live with it.
So, on to the first batch:
An elephant on a water post in Reuterstraße, Neukölln.
Greenface. Köpenicker Staße, Kreuzberg.
Birds in Reuterstraße, Neukölln.
Uga uga. Revaler Straße, Friedrichshain.
Birds near Görlitzer Park, Kreuzberg. They are saying in French “No, no, don’t go crush the little cat”(?!)
Revaler Straße, Friedrichshain.
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