Camille and Isabelle have decided to support urban art and the excitement that grows around it through a thrilling project : traveling all around the world in 2014 focusing their camera on Street Art ! To do so, they elaborated their project around 3 axis :
- following the tracks of Street Art from its origins New York to the new emerging trends in Asia
- shooting every city they're going to visit
to immortalized those ephemeral pieces of art
- meeting the artists to understand their technics and their messages
You can follow us on our website : www.urban-fishers.com to watch pictures, reports and interviews ! Basquiat and Keith Haring had to hide from the police to cover the walls of New York with their subversive art in the 1980's, but today, collectors from all over the world rush to Drouot's auction in Paris for their pieces of work or those of Banksy or Shepard Fairey and pay a small fortune for them ! It is undeniable, Street Art is now becoming increasingly popular in the art scene. Born in the streets and from the hip-hop counterculture, this raw and spontaneous art has been controversial for a long time, but today, canvas of legendary French or American graffers decorate the walls of the luxurious Hotel Matignon ! Despite of the success of Tour Paris 13 projects and the legitimacy earned thanks to streetart exhibition at Le Grand Palais in Paris or the Tate Modern in London , street art remains extremely disputed. This ambiguous status results from the fact that the artists operate on our walls, in the public sphere. But, while the authorities try to fight against "visual pollution", as they call it, Street Art is becoming more and more ubiquitous, democratized and globalized and arises interest from everyone (reaching from mr.