What Steve shot is what gets printed
Banksy Captured is self-published by Steve Lazarides. AART.SPACE Ltd is its independent distributor — sold direct, with no third-party publisher, no licensing deal, and no corporate intermediary.
Who publishes and distributes Banksy Captured?
Banksy Captured is self-published by Steve Lazarides. AART.SPACE Ltd — a small London team — is its independent distributor: there is no third-party publisher, no licensing deal, and 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.
The point of the books is that they are the unvarnished documentary record from inside the work.
Why self-publish and sell direct?
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.
Selling direct also keeps pricing 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 distribute and look after the Banksy Captured archive. That means: getting the books printed, fulfilling orders worldwide, scheduling Steve's signing batches, coordinating exhibitions (the Manchester show being the most recent), and protecting 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 widely. The most important single citation is the Reuters investigation published in March 2026, which used Banksy Captured as a primary-source reference — see /about/reuters-investigation for the full account. We don't pay for placement.
For the wider press record, see /press.