Ryan Heshka (Edition 1/15) Photograph

Dr Case comes from the graffiti world, he started painting the streets of Barcelona when he was a teenager. He always took photos of his pieces before leaving the scene. As you never know how long a piece of graffiti will last, documenting this emerging scene was quite important for him. Besides the finished pieces, he also started taking pictures of artists in action. Following his desire of capturing and spreading this new artistic movement, he decided to publish his pictures on the Internet. One day he was asked to censor the faces of some friends worried about preserving their anonymity in images captured while they were committing acts of vandalism, misdemeanors, and/or street furniture spoilage. He started experimenting in his own quest to find some advanced censoring systems to avoid using the typical pixelization, which he found completely dull and made all his pictures look like police footage. As censorship itself was against his most basic principles of life, he tried to find a system of hiding the artists' faces without actually censoring them. He finally found a way of preserving the artists' anonymity fusing them with their characters. This search for innovative censoring systems transformed him into a digital surgeon that still today continues looking for specimens willing to subject themselves to his photographic experiments voluntarily.