(Q) How long have you been taking photos of graffiti & what interests you to do so?

(A) I’ve been into graff for about 10 years now and seriously documenting it since 2005. i think taking graff flik is a lot like collecting baseball cards as kid. you amass thousands of fliks, trade them with friends, and certain pieces or bombed out walls have greater value depending on who’s up or where you cop’d the flik. the other aspect that i love is the mission. going out with your friends or by yourself to walk the tracks. there’s the rush of being someplace you’re not supposed to and the adventure that goes into mission.

(Q) Do you own photo albums of actual prints or do you prefer digital?

(A) I have def made photo albums for friends or certain parts of my collection, former writers or current writers who i’m down with. if i see something cool and i’m like so’n'so would like that shot, then i’ll make prints for them. i also have my own personal collection of fliks that i’ve gotten from other people, both digital and prints. digital, print, boards, canvas i want it all man!! if there’s a series of fliks i really love then i’ll make little books of them. there used to be these little metal binders you could get for 4×6 shots, man that shit looks good!

(Q) How many photos are in your personal collection?

(A) That’s hard to say, online i have about 1200 shots posted, but i try and really edit what i put out there now. there is a shitload more images that have never seen the light. i don’t really know how many, but we’re talking thousands of pictures. you know, say you walk the freight tracks from 7am to 2pm and you take like 700 fliks, only a fraction of those shots make it online. i shot both digi and film, whatever strikes my mood at the time.

(Q) Do you feel photography plays a major role in documenting graffiti culture?

(A) Paints fades, gets buffed, crossed out, covered up. graff by it’s nature is an impermanent thing. so yea, photography plays a huge role in documenting the culture and evolution of style. from the writers fliking their own work and others to people like martha cooper and henry chalfant and james and karla murray, the photo is the document that preserves the experience. “subway art” has influenced generations of kids around the globe to get up. it doesn’t get any more major than that.

(Q) Do you have any crazy stories or memorable moments while taking photos?

(A) Nothin too crazy apart from dealing with the occasional work bum, or homeless dude, or dodging an oncoming train. mostly good times, like getting drunk or smoked out on the tracks on a beautiful day with your friends and a camera in hand.

Location: New York

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