C
ale Waddacor is a creative from South Africa with
The pink elephant
a degree in film and a keen interest in the visual arts. He has an array of hobbies and interests, from music and photography to street art and urban
exploration. Waddacor is an avid book collector, currently obsessed with photobooks. Waddacor is one of South Africa’s top documentarians of the country’s street art and graffiti. Since 2011, he has run the website Graffiti South Africa to document urban art in South Africa, and has amassed a huge archive of knowledge
In September and October, Creative Feel ran a competition to find a unique and interesting
and photography. His book, also titled Graffiti South Africa, was published in late 2014 by Schiffer Books in the USA – the first of its kind to showcase South African graffiti on an
image for our November cover. And we found it!
international stage.
Cale Waddacor’s photograph of one of renowned
photographic platform, DEAD TOWN, which self-publishes
graffiti artist Falko One’s signature elephants
a 96-page high-quality photo zine along with group
in positive pink and green, juxtaposed against barbwire and rubbish, speaks to the essence of what makes Joburg unique. Among the
More recently, Waddacor launched a film-only
exhibitions in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Falko One is one of South Africa’s most well-known and respected graffiti artists. With a career spanning almost three decades, he has been an integral part of the foundation and development of South Africa’s graffiti scene. He is
abandoned buildings and littered streets of the
heralded as a graffiti icon, not only for his style, but for
City, art is being used to revitalise, rejuvenate and
establishing graffiti as a credible visual art form. Falko's
bring positive new life back in.
initiative started the first graffiti competition in South Africa in 1996, a concept that has been popularised the world over.
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