Graffiti Is An Art

Today's images were taken on another solo winter walk - this time to Allington and back. It actually felt like Spring as the sun was out and the temperature was so much higher than at the beginning of the week - but there was still a cool breeze. I had seen this graffiti on a previous walk and wanted to go back to capture it.
These images were inspired by a documentary I watched a few months ago about a photographer called Martha Cooper, who took photographs of New York graffiti in the seventies and eighties that helped catapult hip hop around the globe. Although I cannot claim that Allington has any resemblance to the mean streets of NYC and the Lower East Side!
This graffiti is actually on the walls of an underpass beneath the M20 motorway a couple of miles from where I live. It is fairly dark, dingy and rubbish strewn environment with a path alongside the River Medway which nevertheless is still used by walkers (partly due to the fact that it is on the way to a nearby riverside pub), cyclists and the occasional runner. A lot of people would not even be aware it is there.
The graffiti itself changes every few months but this particular set is fabulously colourful and has been created with real artistic skill and draughtsmanship. I love them.