Many graffiti artists consider the work they do to be art for the public.

He kept waiting for the graffiti artists to start up on private cars.

Another graffiti artist can go over a piece in a matter of minutes with a simple throw up.

He is also a break dancer and a graffiti artist.

We took turns to look out for officials or other graffiti artists who might paint over us.

Among other changes, she gets a paint job from the graffiti artists of the '60s and '70s.

"Even the graffiti artists are putting more images along with the letters," he said.

Now, another graffiti artist and his entourage are playing a similar game.

The park is also a hot spot for graffiti artists, serving as a great place to practice on the walls.

Do you think of yourself as a latent graffiti artist?

His past identity as a graffiti writer, he said, has become a ball and chain.

The strategy drove many graffiti writers above ground, where they began attacking walls.

On the one hand are two products of the Paris suburbs, a white 21-year-old graffiti writer and his friend, an 11-year-old black boy.

"Being a graffiti writer is about taking the chances," he said.

Still, there was a little rebellious spirit left in some of the graffiti writers.

Many graffiti writers also say they are making a social statement about corporate control of the city's visual landscape.

Like other young graffiti writers, he has honed his approach to suit the times.

But the graffiti writers may be more sophisticated than they think.

Innovation seems to be the mark of today's graffiti writer.

Then the board turned its attention to local shops and other areas in the neighborhood where the graffiti writers had struck.