Steve Lazarides Banksy Photo Limited Edition Prints Explained
Steve Lazarides’ Banksy photo prints are signed, numbered and thumb-stamped limited editions produced from his photographic archive of Banksy’s formative years. Before buying, collectors should examine the image, edition size, signature, thumb stamp, Certificate of Authenticity, and condition, while considering the work’s place within the wider history of Banksy and British street art.
Steve Lazarides – Photo Op – available framed / unframed.
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- Witnessing Banksy's Formative Years
- What Are Steve Lazarides' Banksy Photo Prints?
- Building Context Around a Banksy Collection
- Beyond the Prints: Books
- Where to Buy Steve Lazarides Banksy Photo Limited Edition Prints
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Collect Steve Lazarides Limited Edition Prints at GraffitiStreet
Witnessing Banksy’s Formative Years
Long before Banksy became an international auction phenomenon, Steve Lazarides was photographing the artist at work. His images preserve the streets, stencils, exhibitions and interventions through which Banksy’s visual language developed, capturing a period when the works remained vulnerable to removal and the mythology surrounding the artist was still being constructed.
Selected images from that archive were produced as signed limited-edition photo prints. These are not original artworks by Banksy, nor are they simply documentary reproductions. They are editioned works authored by Lazarides, valued for their composition, historical access and direct connection to Banksy’s formative years.
Their significance lies in proximity. Lazarides was not looking back at an established cultural icon; he was standing close enough to witness the history as it unfolded.
What Are Steve Lazarides’ Banksy Photo Prints?
Steve Lazarides is a British photographer, curator and former gallerist who worked alongside Banksy between 1997 and 2008. After meeting the artist in Bristol through a 1997 assignment for the countercultural magazine Sleazenation, Lazarides became Banksy’s photographer and later his agent, manager and dealer as the artist’s reputation expanded beyond Bristol’s graffiti culture.
During those eleven years, Lazarides photographed Banksy’s street works, exhibitions and working process on film. The Banksy Captured archive presents more than 10,000 photographs taken between 1997 and 2008, preserving one of the most extensive insider records of Banksy’s early development.
The original photographs form the historical archive. The works available to collectors are fine-art photo prints produced from selected images within that archive — a distinction worth holding onto: the archive is the record, while the collectible object is a limited-edition print authored and released by Steve Lazarides.
The strongest editions combine photographic quality, historical significance and access to moments that cannot be recreated. Banksy’s early public works were often temporary — a stencil might survive for years, disappear beneath paint within days, or be lost entirely through demolition, redevelopment or municipal cleaning. Lazarides’ images preserve not only the artwork but its original setting: the wall, architecture, street atmosphere and relationship between the intervention and the city. Between 1997 and 2008, Banksy moved from Bristol’s underground graffiti landscape towards international exhibitions, publications, museum interventions and global recognition, and Lazarides photographed that transformation from within rather than reconstructing it retrospectively.
For collectors, the core question is not simply whether Banksy appears in the image. It is whether the work captures something compositionally, culturally or historically significant. record, while the collectible object is a limited-edition photo print authored and released by Steve Lazarides.
Steve Lazarides – How To Paint Graffiti & Get Away With It – available framed / unframed..
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Building Context Around a Banksy Collection
A Lazarides photo print can add historical depth to a collection built around authenticated Banksy prints, sculptures, publications or ephemera. Where an authenticated Banksy edition presents an artwork authored by Banksy, a Lazarides photo print reveals the surrounding world: the wall, location, process and cultural conditions in which Banksy’s public identity developed.
The two categories should never be confused, but they can be curatorial complementary — a collector might collect a Lazarides edition alongside a related Banksy piece to restore the street-based context that disappears when a screen print enters a domestic or gallery setting.
Banksy, Laugh Now, unsigned screen print. Pest Control authenticated. Available through GraffitiStreet. © GraffitiStreet.
Steve Lazarides – Ape Rule- available framed / unframed.
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Steve Lazarides – Balloon Fight (Flight)- available framed / unframed.
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Banksy – Pulp Fiction Print (unsigned). Image copyright GraffitiStreet – Enquire for details
Steve Lazarides – Streets of Rage- available framed / unframed.
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Beyond the Prints: Books
The Banksy Captured volumes form an important companion, bringing together Lazarides’ images and his own firsthand recollections from the years he spent alongside Banksy — the stories behind how a piece came about, the risks of photographing it, and the atmosphere of the period. Different formats exist, including paperbacks, signed editions and limited-edition hardbacks, so verify the volume, format, signature, numbering, binding and condition before purchase. GraffitiStreet holds a limited selection of signed paper-cover editions of Banksy Captured Volume One and Volume Two, alongside unsigned editions, subject to availability.
Beyond the editions and books, Lazarides also shares further images from his personal archive on Instagram — useful visual and historical context for collectors and researchers.
Steve Lazarides – Banksy Captured Vol. 1 & Vol. 2
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Where to Buy Steve Lazarides Banksy Photo Limited Edition Prints
GraffitiStreet presents a curated selection of signed, numbered and thumb-stamped Steve Lazarides photo prints drawn from his archive of Banksy’s formative years.
There is no single “best” Lazarides edition. The right work depends on whether the collector is drawn to Banksy’s working process, the original street environment, a particular intervention or Lazarides’ photographic composition.
Steve Lazarides – St. Werburgh- available framed / unframed.
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Frequently Asked Questions
They are limited-edition photo prints produced by Steve Lazarides from his photographic archive documenting Banksy between 1997 and 2008.
Editions are signed, numbered and thumb-stamped by Steve Lazarides. Specifications should always be checked against the individual work.
Editions are supplied with Certificates of Authenticity signed and thumb-stamped by Steve Lazarides.
Steve Lazarides’ limited edition photo prints are printed on Somerset Tub Sized Satin 410gsm paper.
Steve Lazarides is a British photographer, agent and former gallerist who worked closely with Banksy between 1997 and 2008, initially as his photographer and later as his agent and dealer.
Lazarides met Banksy in Bristol in 1997 after Sleazenation magazine commissioned him to photograph and interview the emerging artist.
He worked with Banksy for eleven years, from 1997 until their professional relationship ended in 2008.
Steve Lazarides shot over 10,000+ photographs of Banksy at work between 1997 and 2008, on film, across eleven years.
The published photographs document Banksy working while preserving his anonymity. They show partial figures, hands, silhouettes and working scenes rather than a definitive public portrait.
Banksy Captured is a two-volume photographic series by Steve Lazarides documenting the eleven years he spent working alongside Banksy.
Collect Steve Lazarides Limited Edition Prints at GraffitiStreet
A curated selection of signed Steve Lazarides photographic editions is available to view at GraffitiStreet Gallery and acquire through our online collection.
Drawn from Lazarides’ years alongside Banksy, these photographs offer a rare opportunity to collect part of the visual record surrounding one of contemporary art’s most influential and elusive figures. Selected editions are available framed to conservation standards or unframed.
GraffitiStreet also has a limited number of signed paper-cover editions of Banksy Captured Volume One and Banksy Captured Volume Two. Together, the books provide an intimate photographic chronicle of the period between 1997 and 2008, when anonymity, subversion and artistic ambition collided on city walls. These are available signed or unsigned.
Explore the available Steve Lazarides photographic editions and signed Banksy Captured books online, or arrange a private viewing at:
GraffitiStreet Gallery
25A West Street
Chichester
West Sussex
England PO19 1QW
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