WUFC ! Le livre !

[Werner Von Bohr]

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Writers United
The WUFC Story: A Swedish Graffiti Crew
The book Writers United paints an intimate portrait of the members of one of the world’s most notorious graffiti crews, Writers United Football Club (WUFC). Six members, with entirely different personalities and one common goal. Since the creation of WUFC in an indoor soccer hall in the Stockholm suburb of Nacka eleven years ago, they have written their name on thousands of trains and walls across Europe. Like rock musicians, graffiti writers invest their work with style and attitude, and just like in any successful band, each member of WUFC has a specific role. Here, hyperactive graffiti writers Uzi and Que take the lead.

Journalist Björn Almqvist and photographer Emil Hagelin have been following WUFC and some of their friends for several years. The reader will encounter a new world through exhaustive interviews and direct reports. We follow the writers from making preparations in their homes to descending into dark tunnels to write. They risk injury and fines all year round to see their name on the trains. Their lifestyle can be hard to understand. Why do they write, how do they see their work, and what sort of people are they really? The text and atmospheric, highly-charged photographs in Writers United offer a better idea of what graffiti is really all about. As photographer Emil Hagelin says:

“Most graffiti books concentrate on the pieces themselves. We wanted to show what their lives look like, and how graffiti appears on Joe Blow’s wall or the subway train he takes to work every morning.”

Writers United provides a unique insight into graffiti as art and lifestyle. This is the first time such an intimate portrait has been made of a graffiti crew.

Foreword by Martha Cooper, photographer of the books Subway Art (1984) and Hip Hop Files (2004).

Writers United is published by Dokument Förlag and will be available in shops from mid July 2005

160 pp., 23x30 cm, Parallel text in Swedish and English

Emil Hagelin, b. 1976, works as a freelance photographer. Björn Almqvist, b. 1974, is a journalist and editor of the magazine Underground Productions.

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[rober]

http://www.dokument.org/

[xtc86]

Vu que ca vient de la click U.P (undergroundproductions ),ca promet du lourd ...
surement  de la meme qualité que "they call us vandals " et "overground" .....
donc du bon .

[HELIXTHETWAT]

tres certainement un tres beau livre,mais risque d'etre relativement cher..

[Derobe]

une bonne idée cadeau 

[Buskashi]

Ca risque d'être du tres bon.

Quelques photos pour ce que ca interesse...

[cocoa brozer]

inxs a vraiment un panel de style de malade mental.......un des meilleurs graffeur internationnal...sdkkkkkkkkkkkkkillaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[Werner Von Bohr]

Yeah merci pour les photos !

[Ash.K]

Y'a des toffs inédites kon pas trop tournées dans les mags et des interviews, ou bien c'est les mêmes photos que l'on voit depuis qqn années? Parce que le prix de ce bouquin risque de faire mal aux fesses.....

[dega]

29 euros je crois...

[klibre]

inxs est pour moi la seule personne a faire autant de trains avec un style et des couleures aussi différents tout en gardant une identité propre a lui...

[DALTONER.TH.MDC]

inxs c'est un phenoméne celui la!
les sdk et wufc c'est des écurie Ferrari!

[HELIXTHETWAT]

les trucs d'UZE,sa tourne pas trop en mag...

[Buskashi]

[Ash.K]

les trucs d'UZE,sa tourne pas trop en mag...