Alex Fakso, a prominent personality in the contemporary street scenario, comes to photography at the age of thirteen when he gets a camera in order to capture his own “pieces” on trains. Since then, Fakso has never stopped rubbing shoulders with the underworld, being part of the Writing movement since the early 90’s and at the same time becoming its direct narrator.
Fakso’s photographs come from an inner research, an attempt to transform graffiti on trains into a well defined photographic style, aimed at transmitting in one picture all the intensity of the action, raw and honest, illegal and clandestine.
(Bologna): Grafiche Damiani, 2010. First edition. Quarto. Unpaginated. (110 pages). A superb series of images spanning the subway systems of Moscow, Tokyo, London and other major metropolitan areas in which Fasko portrays the incursions of the graffiti writers interspersed with images of the commuters who use the subway merely to travel. A fine copy, sold out shortly after publication.