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C100 Christian Hundertmark
  • PROJECT M/11
  • January 27, 2017
C100

Christian Hundertmark / C100 (born 1974 in Munich) is an artist and creative director. His first sketch “Anarchy” in 1989 was the impetus for a career as an active graffiti writer in the 90s.

Jaime Rojo Curator URBAN NATION
  • PROJECT M/7
  • September 10, 2014
Jaime Rojo

Jaime Rojo is an art curator, photographer and expert in the field of street art and its related practices. Rojo has curated art exhibitions at galleries and museums in Los Angeles, New York, Moscow, and Berlin. He has lectured and directed symposia at universities, museums, and urban art festivals all around the world.

Steven P. Harrington Curator URBAN NATION
  • PROJECT M/7
Steven P. Harrington

Steven P. Harrington is an art curator, editor, writer, and expert in the field of street art and its related practices. His written work on the street art scene has been published in international press, books, and on websites and has been translated into Spanish, Italian, French, German, Norwegian, Portuguese and Korean. He has curated art exhibitions at galleries and museums in Los Angeles, New York, Moscow, and Berlin. He has lectured and directed symposia at universities, museums, and urban art around the world.

Roland Henry

A correspondent of Very Nearly Almost magazine and a chameleon of the international art scene, Roland Henry came across street art via his hometown Bristol’s vibrant graffiti culture. Through his love for music and by working in multiple event venues across the city, he developed a solid background in management and event production, which eventually let him to producing art shows himself, bringing together DJs and street artists. Henry worked as the leading curator for URBAN NATION on the M/5 Project.

Martha Cooper
  • PROJECT M/3
  • July 28, 2014
Martha Cooper

Martha Cooper is a documentary photographer who has specialized in shooting urban vernacular art and architecture for over forty years. In 1977, Martha moved from Rhode Island to New York City and worked as a staff photographer at the NY Post for three years. During that time she began to document graffiti and B-Boying, subjects which led to her extensive coverage of early Hip Hop as it emerged from the Bronx. These photos, published worldwide, helped make Hip Hop the predominant international youth movement it is today.

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