One of our favourite street art photographers, sheila blige, has taken a picture of a piece that I think is awesome and deserves a mention. I’m unsure who the artist is (maybe zute?) but the piece is really great and I’m a big fan of the typography. Not overly complicated but a great piece all the same.

Flickr of the week this week is not going to be a street artist at all. This is the first street art photographer that has won FOTW. We are pleased to have sheila_blige as FOTW for week 11.

sheila’s work is a brilliant document of work for the Manchester, UK street art scene. Looking not only at stencils, stickers and pastes, sheila also covers tiny tags to huge throwups.

Links:
sheila_blige’s Flickr

Work in the picture by: SHINE, FREE, FMS, REAK, …., TETS, FUNK ONE, F, AND, SEGA, OREOS, RELOAD, RIOT68, DEAC4, SPAR, PWS n MANE

Probably as important to the street art scene as the artists themselves, the people who photograph the art are responsible for spreading the art and maximising publicity for both the piece of work and the artist. Whether the flick was taken by the artist themself, a passer by or one of growing number of photographers specialising in graffiti they all help to boost exposure (no pun intended).

One photographer that has impressed is Jeremy Gibbs a.k.a Romanywg. Romanywg has over 3400 pictures in his flickr and photographed work from a huge range of artists big and small. As a very well known street art photographer he has moved on from just taking work on the street - he has found the door to many galleries and exhibitions.

Not all photographers can be as big as Romanywg but sheila_blige is incredibly proactive and taking the street art world by storm. Taking a mass of photo’s from shila_blige’s home town of Manchester there is no trouble to find good art.

HowAboutNo! is a London based artist. You may have heard his name before mentioned on the site as he was one of the tour guides taking people round East London to raise money for Cancer Sell. Howaboutno’s photos are always powerful and educational.

Those mentioned in this article are just the tip of the iceberg. It seems perculiar that someone would want to take a picture of a wall but as street art is becoming more recognised by the public I don’t think we’ll see a slow down in the number of photographers specialising in street art.

Links:
Romanywg’s Flickr
sheila_blige
HowAboutNo!’s Flickr