Steve Lazarides (British, b. 1969) after Banksy Gangster Gr...

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£180

Steve Lazarides (British, b. 1969) after Banksy
Gangster Grannies
320gsm Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Pearl print
Limited Edition number 12 of 200
Signed, numbered & stamped by Steve Lazarides
Printed by Magic Max
42 x 59.4cm (16" x 23.5")

With certificate of authenticity from Steve Lazarides' private collection.

Steve Lazarides is a British-Greek Cypriot publisher, photographer, collector and curator. He has helped popularise street art and underground art. In the 1980s, he started out with a Nikon F-mount camera documenting his surrounding environments as a photography student. He subsequently worked as a photographer for Sleazenation, where he was employed as photography director from 1996 till 2001. 

Commissioned by Sleazenation to photograph Banksy's portrait in 1997, he continued to work with the artist, including as the anonymous artist's driver and photographer, before eventually becoming his gallerist. Lazarides and Banksy also launched the 'Pictures on Walls' website in 2001 to promote graffiti art, and widened their scope to work with a larger roster of street artists. He created an in-house print studio, Lazarides Editions, and worked with the artists to create prints to share with the art community. 

In 2016, Lazarides began curating his personal photography archive of 100,000 images containing roughly 12,000 photographs he took whilst documenting the career of Banksy, and self-published them as two books, Banksy Captured Volume I & Volume II. Lazarides self-distributed the first and second editions of the two volumes, resulting in sales of over 5,000 copies within a month, at the end of 2019. Banksy Captured Volume II, features further photography and commentary, and was published in March 2021. Volume Two includes reportage from Banksy's 2006 Los Angeles exhibition "Barely Legal", images of the artist's unauthorised installation inside London's Natural History Museum during 2004. Banksy Captured Volume I & Volume II were both self-published via Lazarides' Laz Emporium venture.

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