Heavy Metal

In Heavy Metal, the Italian photographer Alex Fakso brings us behind the scenes of the secretive and low-down-glamorous world of European graffiti art, documenting the daily (and nightly) lives of that continent's most celebrated street artists. Fakso was allowed unprecedented access to this guarded underground culture, London, Berlin, Barcelona and beyond, producing an electrifying body of work that conveys the sense of an urgent covert mission. This exhilarating, long-overdue collection represents an essential record of European urban culture in our time.