I had planned some weeks ago where I wanted to go, a very ethnic area in Melbourne called Brunswick. The homes were very old and very close together, the street very narrow and the curb house many cars of every shape and colour, each house had a side path with a gate only wide enough to walk, these houses held no room for a drive way, Each house had their own feel about them some looked happy others sad, but each were unique in there own way.
As we drove around the back streets, I scanned each of the street signs looking for the ones I had listed on my paper, Lygon Street, Moreland Road, Albion Street, and many more. I had been to Brunswick many times to shop as a child but when I walked down the streets it didn't seem the same, I think as a child your perspective on things is quite different, the shops had changed and the people were more ethnic than I remember but that didn't bother me as I wasn't there to look at them only to find the elusive street with the urban graffiti I so longed to photograph.
Brunswick is a very old area with old cobble stoned laneways which led to who knows where, they were littered with loads of graffiti. It was a lovely afternoon not too cold as Winter is almost over and the days are starting to become a bit warmer and when I say warmer instead of it being 14 degrees it was a nice 17 for a change. I find when you walk around with your camera people sometimes look at you as if to say what are you up too, or why do have a camera what could be spectacular enough to photograph, but when you see something good enough sometimes you can see it's beauty where others can't.
This was the first piece of graffiti I saw and how wonderful it was the colours stood out so bright and happy to great the passer by.
I had walked the main streets of Brunswick many times and driven down them in the car, but never really had the need to walk down the back streets which I did on my last photo expedition. Wow how fascinating they were, there was so much too see and as far as the eye could see, you could see graffiti. It was in the laneways in the main streets along the path that runs along the Brunswick Station. Wow!
I was very surprised to see this companies building covered in the most lovely graffiti done by who knows who.
Situated in Albion Street. If you want fresh or dried nuts this is apparently the place to come to, The Royal Nut Company.
I decided to park the car and go for a leisurely walk along Sydney Road, Brunswick, whilst walking I took some photos of some fantastic graffiti done by some very talented people. I often wonder are they male or female and how old are these urban artists, have they been trained in this or not?
The traffic on Sydney Road for a Sunday afternoon was quite busy, I had to dash across the road at the first chance I could get, to be able to get where I wanted to go. The clothing shops where empty and a few lone hairdressers sat in their salons waiting for that client to turn up. The streets were busy with people darting here and there as I walked to my destination.
This laneway is beside the Cornish Arms Hotel in Sydney Road Brunswick. The graffitti seemed to go on for ever.
This urban art was on a shutter of a business which supplies seafood, it is great advertising as the colours draw you to look at it.
This was located in a narrow street running of Victoria Street Sydney Road and the railway line in Brunswick.
Imagine having the side of your house painted with graffiti, don't you often wonder if the owners of the house are happy with what has been done. All this graffiti runs along the Brunswick Railway line.
Apparently Brunswick Railway Line has the best graffiti which runs for miles maybe one day I might take a long walk when the weather is not so cool..
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Do you ever wonder what goes through
someones mind when they paint something like this.
It was a great day and I love photographing graffiti, there are so many talented people who paint these but sadly they never sign their names, so no one knows who they are. Some is done for fun some looks like a real mess but others look like a real work of art that the artist should be very very proud of.
