Darkside The Backup Vol. 2

20 years on, the Darkside fanzine is back with The Backup, a book of over 1,000 pages divided into two volumes - The Backup Vol. 1 and The Backup Vol. 2 - containing over 6,000 archives, mainly from the 1990s and 2000s.

The first edition of Darkside was distributed in 1996 to specialist shops in Paris. It was a black and white graffiti fanzine with a print run of 100 copies, produced with a pair of scissors and a tube of glue. The following years saw the publication of seven more issues, two special 'train' series and a DVD.

Twenty years later, The Backup unveils more than 6,000 archives of urban art accumulated over some thirty years. This collective work retains the spirit of its beginnings, with a no-frills layout to get to the point, a few black and white pages to recall the first fanzines made from scratch, and uncaptioned photographs to maintain the mystery surrounding these underground artists.

Backup Vol. 2 presents photographs of graffiti by many Parisian crews (ABS, ADK, AJT, ARH WE, ASG, BF, CIA, CLM, CMP, COP, CP5, CRE, DAB 2BK, DKA, DOC ACK, D7K, D77, DUM, ELM, FDS, FMK, GAP, HG DUC, HM, IMC, JCT, KCA SK, KIE, LCA, MAC, NST, OBKOS, OC, OPC, P19, P2B, PCP TW, 4AD, 90DBC, RCA, SAC, SDE, SDK, SED, SEP 1K, 73, STS, SWC, T?C, THS, TPS, 3CK, 3DT, 3HC, TSF, TSP, TVA, 1B, UK AEC, US CRS, VAL, 21, VMD, WS).