WHITEBOOK 01 – IT’S A CIRCLE

by Mark Grokenberger

New York City is the birthplace of graffiti and especially of trainwriting. Since the mid 80s writers from all over the world visit their Mecca and many of them try to achieve painting the iconic subway as their heroes did since the 1970s. With the first volume of the WHITEBOOK series IT’S A CIRCLE has several visits to the big Apple of German writer and photographer Mark Grokenberger between 2019 and 2024 in focus.

The 224-paged hardcover tells the chronological story of befriended writers who first tick off their list to hit the local subway once only to find out that the city has way more to offer for ambitious train writers. With each new trip to NYC they professionalize their missions which leads to concept end-to-ends, full colour wholecars and even wholetrains. Their actions are separated into six chapters and accompanied with reflecting texts and stories on selected actions.