Jana und JS are a graffiti duo that does large-scale portraits of photographers. Each piece portrays various shutterbug enthusiasts who look like they're about to take a photograph of the street and its pedestrians. The duo uses stencils to create their portraits, which creates a clean effect.
Jana und JS have also done other types of street art; however, these ironically clever pieces are my personal favorite.
What's Driving This Trend
- Portrait Graffiti
- Street art trends towards designing and creating large-scale portraits of real-life enthusiasts provides unique branding opportunities for portrait photography businesses
- Stenciled Graffiti
- Design surge for stencils for graphic art prints on niche merchandise like T-shirts and shopping bags opens up new opportunities for marketers to tap into graffiti culture
- Photography-inspired Street Art
- A trend for graffiti artists to use photography as inspiration for their projects leads to a new era of collaboration opportunities between the two industries
Who This Affects Most
- Graffiti Art
- The trend for large-scale portrait graffiti offers innovative opportunities for artists to upend and refresh the traditional street art market
- Photography
- Collaborative opportunities between photographers and graffiti artists as seen in this trend provide opportunities for the photography industry to reach new audiences and create unique art pieces.
- Merchandise Printing
- The trend towards stenciled graphic art prints creates a new opportunity for businesses to capitalize on this form of street culture to create new, trendy merchandise
