The Publisher

Who publishes Banksy Captured?

Banksy Captured is self-published by Steve Lazarides through AART SPACE LTD — a small London team. There is no third-party publisher, no licensing deal, no corporate intermediary. What Steve shot is what gets printed.

AART SPACE LTD is registered in England and Wales (Companies House number 16726493) at 3rd Floor, 86–90 Paul Street, London, EC2A 4NE. The site you are reading is the only direct retail channel — books ship from the UK, returns are free within 14 days, and customer support runs out of sales@aartspace.com.

Why self-publish?

A corporate publisher would have asked for editorial control, a licensor, and a price point that priced the books out of reach. None of those would have been the right call for an archive whose value is its directness. The point of the books is that they are the unvarnished documentary record from inside the work — and that record doesn't survive a marketing department's rewrite.

Self-publishing also keeps pricing direct and transparent. Without licensors, agents, or a corporate publisher taking a cut at every step, the price you pay is closer to the actual cost of producing and shipping a book — see the editions page for the current catalogue and prices, all sourced live from Shopify.

What does AART SPACE LTD do?

AART SPACE LTD exists to publish, distribute, and care for the Banksy Captured archive. That means: printing the books, fulfilling orders worldwide, scheduling Steve's signing batches, coordinating exhibitions (the Manchester show being the most recent), and maintaining the editorial integrity of the photographs as they move from contact sheet to printed page.

We are not a gallery, an NFT project, a licensing agency, or a secondary-market reseller. We sell one thing: the books, in the formats Steve approved.

What about press and credibility?

The archive has been written about by 36 outlets including Reuters, The Guardian, BBC, Artnet, Crain's, The Times, and The Telegraph. We don't pay for placement. The most important single citation is the Reuters investigation published in March 2026 — see /about/reuters-investigation for the full account.

For the press roll-up across all 36 outlets, see /press.

Read more

For the archive itself, see /about/the-archive. For how the photographs were taken, see /about/the-process. For the photographer, see /about/steve-lazarides. For the editions and prices, see /about/editions.