Eleven years, on film, from inside the work

10,000 photographs of Banksy at work, shot by Steve Lazarides between 1997 and 2008. On film. Before camera phones existed. The only insider archive from those years — published as the two-volume Banksy Captured series and the Limited Edition hardcover.

The archive covers eleven years of work, from the early Bristol stencils through the worldwide phase: Los Angeles, New York, Paris, the museum interventions, the bridges, the rats. Steve was there with a Nikon for most of it.

Steve Lazarides was Banksy's closest collaborator from 1997 to 2008 — first photographer, then agent and dealer. The access wasn't negotiated; it was the consequence of being one of the few people in most of those rooms in the first place. Steve had a camera. He used it.

The result is a primary source. Not a curated retrospective, not a licensed reproduction project — the contact sheets from the years that defined Banksy's public reputation, kept by the person who took them.

Much of Banksy's early street work is gone — painted over, weathered away, or removed by collectors and councils. The streets the work was made for were never going to preserve it. For a great deal of what existed before 2008, the photograph is now the record that remains — and most of those photographs are in this archive.

That's why the books are documentation, not decoration. They are where the work still lives.

Volume 1 — Evidence covers the early years: 4am Bristol stencils, the first London pieces, the Pictures on Walls collective, the warehouse sessions. Volume 2 — Framed covers the worldwide phase: Turf War, Barely Legal, the Bethlehem trips, the museum interventions, Dismaland's preludes.

The Volume 2 Limited Edition Hardback is the same archive in a collector format: pink linen slipcase, numbered out of 5,000, signed by Steve. Same photographs, same insider access, built to last on a shelf.

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