Yesterday I was at the book signing for the Beyond the Streets exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, just off the King’s Road in Chelsea. I was sitting next to Normski and GG the Illustrator (Gianna Fiore). GG did a quick cartoon of the three of us. The queue to get books signed was crazy. At its height, people were queueing for nearly three hours.

The exhibition is fantastic, showing the history of more than 60 years of graffiti and street art reflecting a background in politics, various music scenes, fashion, film and art.

Here’s some examples from the show (click to see larger).

And here’s my wall of photos, entry in the catalogue and my book in the bookshop.

The exhibition runs until 5 May 2027.

Back in June I was approached by an American exhibition design and publishing company to ask if they could use a few of my photos of graffiti from the 1970s in a book to accompany an exhibition on graffiti and street art. A week later they came back to me and said they’d changed their minds and would like to use just my photos for the book. They also asked me of they could use 12 of the photos in the exhibition. You can imagine how excited I am by all this.

Here’s a few spreads from the book which has been design by Rob Fever.

The exhibition traces six decades of the extraordinary influence of street culture on contemporary art, photography, fashion, music and activism. The story is told through innovators and legends from graffiti, street art, hip-hop, 2Tone and a wider ecosystem of people willing to challenge boundaries and take risks, reshaping the world around them.

The company is Beyond the Streets and the exhibition will be on at the Saatchi Gallery in London from 11 November 2026 – 5 May 2027. The book will be on sale at the exhibition and through Beyond the Streets’ website.

You can see the photographs from the book (plus a few more) in this album on Flickr. Please note: some of the photographs contain offensive racist and sexist writing. Please don’t look if you are likely to be upset by this.

Last Sunday I went to Penge in south east London to see some of the wonderful street art that’s been done there over the last few years. Some of the countries top street artists are represented, including some of my favourites. I’d been hoping to see the work on the top floors of the Blenheim Street Car Park, but unfortunately it was all locked up, I think following a fire in a store room that destroyed a lot of the artists’ equipment. Despite this setback there was still a vast amount of art to see – and I think I only saw about half of it. Here’s a small selection.