FREIGHT FACES

As soon as graffiti pieces were developed on trains characters have been used to upgrade the painted letters. This tradition is still common in the world of graffiti to this day. FREIGHT FACES is a 100-paged zine which solely features figures executed on European Transwaggon freight cars. Due to the fact that writers usually have more time and less chances to get caught when painting these trains, they appear more often than on commuter trains or subways.

Since freight trains commonly do not stop at passenger stops the painted characters are only visible for short amount of time when cargo cars move by. Photographer Max Eisenhardt anyway managed to collect FREIGHT FACES close-up shots at one and the same spot over a ten year span while Sascha Blasche selected and compiled the content. Some characters look brand new while others are worn down and bear scars of the industrial landscapes they travelled for years across the continent. The publication preludes a comprehensive European freight encyclopedia on the years 2013-2023 which is in the making.

The hand numbered zine is limited to 100 copies only and features 98 works from APES, BARTO, BRO, CARS, COKG, DBF, DEBIL, DEKSL, DSK, EKSTRA, ELZE, FELTO, FLYING FÖRTRESS, FORCE, FUME, FUTSCH, FYANE, GLORY DOG, HIPPIE, HSM, IFC, ILOVEYOU, INO, KAISE, LIGISD, LIMP.H, MAGIK, MOFO, NAM, NASE, NOFUN, NOGOD, NOR, OBCS, OTIS, PINK, RALLYE, REMOT, RIDIM, SHEM, SHIV, SIRUP, T-BONE, TEA, YF, ZAY, and many others.

100 pages, 14,8 x 21 cm, softcover
Edition size: 100, hand numbered
Language: English
Release date: May 2026
Publisher: Hitzerot