Building Art Crimes

This keynote address for the goINDIGO 2023 symposium is a personal telling of the author’s experiences in the world of graffiti documentation before, during and after working on Art Crimes (https://www.graffiti.org) with Susan Farrell. Art Crimes was created in 1993 and it was the first website dedicated to graffiti and street art. The paper attempts to highlight the risks to the practitioners and advocates of graffiti through personal stories and the challenges of organizing large quantities of images from diverse geographies.