Photography & Art

Theodora Shure was born in New York City and moved to the West Coast in 2006. Her artwork has been included in shows at the ArtWorks Gallery and at Kaladi Brothers Coffee in Seattle. Her snapshots of graffiti in Barcelona were inspired by a visit to that city in winter 2007. Shure is a student at the Northwest School in Seattle.

Barcelona Graffiti

A Photo Essay

by Theodora Shure

In 2007, when I visited Barcelona, I was already interested in stenciled art. I’d learned to make stencils in a free workshop open to teens in Seattle, and I loved that the materials were everyday ones, such as construction paper and an exacto knife, and that the possibilities were open-ended. In Seattle I kept an eye out for graffiti, and I pored over art magazines such as Juxtapoz, which sometimes highlights street artists. I visited photo websites such as Wooster Collective and Streetsy. I was hooked.

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