Riot! Dont Diet

Where I lived in Sweden, it was interesting to see rather more graffiti in English than in Swedish. My apartment for most of my time there was in a building that also housed a small hotel, a bookshop and a takeaway pizza place: all the amenties one could hope for. In the basement was a parking garage with an entrance at the rear of the building. One day in late 2004 some pink spray-painted graffiti appeared next to that entrance exhorting “RIOT! DONT DIET”. Nearby was another heartwarming message in English. I took the pictures with the little point-and-shoot digital camera I had at the time, a Pentax Optio S4.

As I’ve mentioned before, it was another piece of graffiti that, a few years later, helped intensify my enthusiasm for photography. Some other miscellaneous messages I photographed in and around Karlskrona ca. 2005-09: MY ART IS BETTER THAN YOUR ART; you die when you’re young; Love+Love+; FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY STING LIKE A BEE; and, as shown below, FIRE WALK WITH ME!