Sunday, 06 June 2004 | Graffiti

Since I moved to New York almost two years ago, I've been taking photos of signs, graffiti, tags, commentary—anything I found interesting, clever, attractive, or strange. Although there are hardly any people in the photos themselves, the pictures I've compiled are inherently about people, specifically the ones who live in New York. [Disclaimer]

Once I drove through a "free expression" tunnel on the campus of a certain all girls' college. (The tunnel's concrete walls were provided as space for the students to spraypaint whatever was on their minds, without the threat of getting in trouble for defacing school property.) I was disappointed to see lots of "girl + boy" tags and little else. Perhaps the worst tag, which was printed in large puffy letters, simply said, "I love my friends!" This set of pictures is for whoever wrote that.