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Detail of Alexandre in action

Inverse Graffiti in São Paulo

That guy up there, thowing up those skulls – he’s not actually defacing anything. He is actually cleaning the dirty, grimy wall. But cleaning it with some serious style. São Paulo-based graffiti artist Alexandre Orion challenges perceptions about the definition of graffiti, vandalism and art with his amazingly detailed imagery he ‘cleaned’ into this highway tunnel in Brazil. [...]

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JR hits the Rio favelas

These spectacular photos are the artwork of the underground artist/photographer JR who’s latest work takes place in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. It’s part of his ongoing 28 milimetres project which started back in 2004, and got him famous when it was featured on the front page of the New York Times. I’m a [...]

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