In the late 90s, a strange guy armed with a Polaroid camera turned up at Munich’s S-Bahn stations. His name was Eddie. Why was he taking pictures with a Polaroid camera of all things? Well, he found this camera at home with his parents, even back then a relic from days gone by. Although the format was unsuitable for panels or Wholecars, Eddie held on to this technique, fueled by pure passion.

His drive to photograph came from punk music and the influence of his older brother, who had started documenting Sponti slogans with the Polaroid in the 90s. Around 1997, Eddie discovered his passion for graffiti. As he lived a bit out of town, he noticed the pictures on and in the trains on his regular journeys on the Regios and S-Bahn trains. Without further thought, he began to capture them with his parents‘ Polaroid camera.

His childhood bedroom became the archive of his passion. Stacks of Polaroids lay around, and whenever he could, he organized them. Whenever he could read the styles or assign them to the corresponding writers, he labeled them with their respective names. Eddie became a strange phenomenon of the time. Everyone seemed to know him, but nobody ever really had contact with him.

Thanks to a diversion, which we owe to Kubik, ASC, we have obtained the original Polaroids and would like to share them with you. The result is a kind of analog Instagram from the late 90s, a time capsule full of colorful graffiti captured through Eddie’s eyes.

184 Pages
Size: 16,8 x 24 cm
Offset printed
Edition of 200
Language: German & English