Melbourne is known as one of the world’s great street art capitals for its unique expressions of art on outdoor locations.
Street art includes stencils, paste-ups and murals graffiti and tagging; however many images are either removed or painted over, so photography is the only way to make the street art stay alive.
Jarek Mosiejewski creates stunning photo-based street art that explore the quirks, rebellions & statements in human existence.
Through his playful photography he exposes the ironic, humorous and serendipitous workings of daily life.
The self-taught photographer has been avidly shooting street art around the Melbourne CBD and surrounding areas for almost a decade now.
With over 3000 photos, Jarek boasts one of the largest collections of street art photography in Australia.
Jarek feels that photography democratizes street art. Not only does it make the work more accessible for the viewer, but it is a memory that the art piece once existed.
To see more, Jarek and his daughter Urszula have set up a Facebook page to showcase his street art collection here: Mos Prints : HERE
Or you can view his entire folio of photography here: www.pbase.com/jarekm/msa
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