TAG 5 Review - KISS: FREIGHT LIFE " I have always thought that KISS's work on the FR8 for almost 30 years was underestimated, even ignored. As if its flop, omnipresent in Europe, was commonly accepted as part of the railway landscape, a kind of logic diminishing at the same time the self-denial of its author and the magnitude of his work.
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\nWhen I received the text message announcing his incarceration, the need to share his photos with you came to me. Not to glorify him in any way (he would hate that), but simply to pay tribute to what he accomplished on the ground, in the shadow of the specialized media and the Internet, simply driven by an extreme passion for graffiti and this medium in particular. By mixing the letters and drawings that he was able to send me from his various stints in prison for over 20 years, as well as photos of different actors and spotters of the scene, (although representing only a small percentage of his production), I tried to paint his portrait.
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\nThis issue is also a way to support him financially and mentally in this difficult time he is going through, in fact I have chosen to donate the profit from the sales to pay his legal fees." -FUZI
