More Wall Art – Cans Festival II
Graffiti is hip and happening in London. Following the Cans Festival, the Tate Modern is holding a street art exhibition, also “the first major public museum display of street art in London”. Gone are the days when graffiti was deemed underground and taboo – it’s clearly mainstream now!
I returned to Leake Street to the tunnel where the Cans Festival took place to see how the graffiti had evolved since the actual exhibition. From 5th May, the tunnel has been open to the public, and people are essentially free to tag over the original works.
I love this:
Then again, I’m biased as the image it’s based on is by my favourite photographer, Steve McCurry.
Clearly a popular piece..
but what’s this I see?!
My favourite piece, tagged over 
A couple of weeks later..
Hm..
That description sounds an awful lot like Mr. Banksy 
Either I missed a hell of a lot of graffiti the first time, or things are constantly being added, or both, which I guess is the beauty of this whole array of artwork.
I’ve always been a graffiti spotter and now even moreso!
Perhaps I’ll ditch street photography and just shoot walls.
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Cans Festival – http://tanya-n.com/?p=112
