Graffiti & Street Art Photography
Mindless scrawl or Street Art?
Let’s face it — if you don’t photograph graffiti & street art, are you even a photographer?
Welcome to The Graffiti Lounge - a place to kick back, roll your eyes (ironically), and revel in urban culture.
This graffiti and street art photography portfolio documents the louder end of the urban conversation — photographed across many major cities around the world where walls are rarely left alone for long.
My approach to street art photography focuses less on documenting artists and more on atmosphere: texture, decay, accidental compositions, and the strange poetry that happens when paint meets brick, weather, time, and local politics. Some pieces are bold. Some are barely hanging on. All of them existed briefly before someone painted over them, demolished the wall, or decided beige was the future.
Street art. Graffiti. Urban chaos with a paint can.
These images are intentionally dark, graphic, and slightly confrontational. They’re not meant to tidy graffiti up or make it polite — just to preserve a moment before it disappears. Consider this a visual archive of urban wall art, vandalism, protest, humour, and uninvited creativity.
I’m officially obsessed, it is what I live for. If I could photograph only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be graffiti — hands down, no contest.
I’ve got a full-blown graffiti fetish (there, I said it). I can’t walk past a mural, stencil, paste-up, or sticker without stopping to photograph it. Sometimes I shoot the whole bold wall, other times I zoom in tight — dripping paint, cracked tiles, or a single rogue sticker — creating art from art.
All photographs in this graffiti and street art portfolio are available as Limited Edition (to 50 Worldwide) fine art prints, Embossed and Hand Signed .
Perfect for people who like their walls to look like they might have a criminal record.
Sarcasm, wit, and a touch of anarchy
What I love most isn’t just the colour and craft — it’s the humour, sarcasm, and glorious anti-establishment attitude that bleeds from every wall
From razor-sharp one-liners to politically charged doodles, street art says what the rest of us are thinking… just with better typography and fewer consequences.
There’s something beautifully ironic about photographing art that was never meant to be polite. It’s raw, funny, and refreshingly honest — and if it makes me laugh out loud in the middle of an alleyway, even better.
Urban walls rarely whisper - They shout
Sometimes swear….. Occasionally preach
Paste-ups, slap-ups, and layers of chaos
Sure, I love the big, bold murals that shout from brick walls, but I’ve got equal time for the paste-ups and sticker bombs too. The magic happens when different artists overlap — layers of texture, humour, and rebellion stacked on top of one another like a visual argument.
Even tagging — yes, the thing I used to hate (especially the ill-thought scrawl that covers half of Italy, sorry Italy) — has started to win me over when it’s grouped together. There’s something unexpectedly beautiful about that clustered chaos
The art of the streets
Cities around the world have finally stopped pretending graffiti doesn’t exist.
Many now embrace it — commissioning artists, celebrating murals, and using street art to soften and humanise urban spaces.
And me?
I’m just a bald bloke wandering the streets with my camera, trying to capture that perfect mix of art, attitude, and anarchy — before someone paints yet another “Willy” over it
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The classic stylized signature that people love to call “scribble.” It’s not just a scrawl — it’s an artist’s autograph in aerosol form.
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A fancier, often more colourful cousin of tagging. Bigger, bolder, and slightly harder to read if you’re not fluent in street shorthand.
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When graffiti stretches from one end of a wall to the other. Think marathon, not sprint.
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A drawing or photocopy slapped on with wallpaper paste and then “worked on” in place. Perfect for layering, irony, and occasional chaos.
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Small, portable, and deceptively simple. Often overlooked, always loved — because sometimes the tiniest artwork makes the biggest statement.
Simple Graffiti Glossary
Paste up graffiti, Manchester UK - photography by Dave Wall
Vibrant Street Art with a tree for a head - Miami USA - photography by Dave Wall
Street Art of falling figures Manchester UK - photography by Dave Wall
Paste up graffiti of naked woman Manchester UK - photography by Dave Wall
Graffiti and Signatures on The Peace wall Belfast Ireland - photography by Dave Wall
Paste Up Graffiti Collage - 'HEKTAD vs BANKSY' New York City - photography by Dave Wall
Sci-Fi Street Art Birmingham UK - photography by Dave Wall
The Prodigy Street Art Bristol UK - photography by Dave Wall
Multiple Human Skulls graffiti Manchester UK - photography by Dave Wall
Robot Street Art Birmingham UK - photography by Dave Wall
Full wall of Paste-up graffiti Manchester UK - photography by Dave Wall
Graffiti in Gay Village Superman and Batman Manchester UK - photography Dave Wall
Paste-Up graffiti Manchester UK - photography Dave Wall
Love hearts falling to earth on black brick wall - graffiti New York City - photography Dave Wall
Bold huge street art installation of Alien babies - New York City - photography Dave Wall
Graphic street art mural of Audrey Hepburn - New York City - photography Dave Wall
Stik Men Graffiti - Bristol UK - photography Dave Wall
City of Dreams Street Art - New York City - photography Dave Wall
Street Art dripping paint portrait - New Yotk City - photography Dave Wall
Contemporary street art – colourful graffiti mural - Las Vegas - photography Dave Wall
Creepy Street Art - San Fransisco - photography Dave Wall
Man walking balloon dog street art - Las Vegas carpark - photography Dave Wall
Humorous street art - Birmingham UK
Stencil Street Art - Birmingham UK - photography Dave Wall
Political street art mural - Manchester UK - photography Dave Wall
Colourful Cartoon Gorilla street art - Manchester UK - photography Dave Wall
Political satire Street Art Graffiti - Belfast - photography Dave Wall
Dripping clown face street art - Belfast - photography Dave Wall
Famous street Art - Belfast - Diver and Mermaid - photography Dave Wall
paste-up graffiti - Marilyn Monroe in telephone box - New York City - photography Dave Wall
Bold graffiti street art typography - photography by Dave Wall
City of Dreams Street Art - New York City - photography by Dave Wall
Bold and humorous street art - New York City - photography by Dave Wall
Love Wall Graffiti - New York City - photography by Dave Wall
Liar Liar Bums on Fire Graffiti - Manchester UK - photography by Dave Wall
Prints for Sale: Call-to-Action
Yes, my Urban Graffiti & Street Art Images are now available as Limited Edition, Archival Hand signed Prints.
Elevate your spaces with some Urban Chaos coupled with with a riot of colours, —because nobody loves beige!!
Until my Print Shop is 100% functional please feel free to drop me an enquiry
“My graffiti and street art photography celebrates the raw energy, sarcasm, and untamed creativity of urban culture. From giant, wall-spanning murals to tiny paste-ups clinging to crumbling brickwork, I capture the humour, rebellion, and sheer artistry that thrive on city walls. Based in the UK but shooting wherever paint hits concrete, my work explores the layered, chaotic beauty of street art and graffiti photography — where bold design meets bold opinions.”
circa 1975