Shave’s Cut — Cult. Need. & Dedication.

‘Shave your head. Shave eyebrows. Shave all hair. Get rid of hair. Get rid of all the hoopla, lose the philosophical discussion about graffiti, forget the newest fads. Shave hasn’t paid attention to the trends in graffiti, he learned graffiti a long time ago and even though life is in flux, hyper-speed, never-ending nonsense, Shave has kept that original idea and feeling about graffiti as his mooring.’

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Shave’s Cut. Cult. Need. & Dedication.

The book is a tribute to graffiti in the Netherlands. A manifesto of 352 pages of photos, most of them previously unpublished, honouring the essence and zeitgeist of street culture in its purest form.

Shave’s Cut is the visual autobiography of graffiti writer Shave, the nom de plume of a pioneer of the Dutch graffiti scene. For decades, Shave has made coded statements in public space: hidden in plain sight on trains and walls, his pieces raw and bold.

Shave confronts the public, uninvited and unannounced. By writing pieces he rebels against ‘standard bullshit’, offering a new interpretation of reality.