The interesting thing about graffiti and why some people do it, is because it is essentially outlawed. This not only adds more risk to the activity but forces people to perform this form of art in places where they may not normally roam.
This image to the above is an image taken in Brazil on a bridge where these three men were caught on camera attempting to perform graffiti in a place where most would not. This may be to create a more powerful image but the danger these three are taking to portray this message is high. One step in the wrong direction and I would bet they are dead. Now unfortunately this happens to graffiti writers all the time, which is what happened in the below image. Police in Vancouver discovered a young man dead with spray cans above him so they assume he was attempting to perform a high rise graffiti piece on an 18 floor apartment building. Graffiti is art but with another entire level of risk involved in it and the writers of today seem to think that the more risk taken on a piece the more powerful the image or message will be.
Bibliography Sources
http://thebegissues.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/why-why/
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Craig-Fugate-man-identified-in-high-rise-graffiti-death-201081251.html
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