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On grime guns n gold 14 pictures

This is a collection of photos taken from projects across Leeds and Bradford that where we've done graffiti on the topic of gang culture, prison life, asbos, identity, drugs, crime, grime, guns and gold. Done on projects in partnership with PAYP, Con-Sequence, Kala Sangam and the Bradford Youth Offending Team.

Revizit: working with gangs programme, organised by Positive Futures and the Youth Service. Dec 2009
Jacks Kick Racism out of my sight....NOW! Workshops for the Signpost project. March 2010
'23hr lock up' by Mohsin, after a talk delivered by Con-Sequence on prison life. You get 1hr out of your cell. Keighley 2010.
Easy come easy go: Done after a talk by Naz from Con-Sequence about how the money he earnt from dealing was all confiscated when he was sentenced. Keighley 2010.
Riches to Rags: by Nasak after a talk by Con-Sequence on prison life. What stood out for Nasak was when Naz was talking about how one minute he was living like a king and the next he was wearing prison clothes, eating crap food and sharing a toilet with his cellmate. Keighley 2010.
'Sentence for Toys' - You are likely to get the same prison sentence whether you use a real gun or a toy (eg BB gun) in a robbery. After a workshop from a Police Firearms specialist, Kala Sangam Bradford 2010.
'Do the crime do the time' - By Nicole, Kala Sangam Bradford, 2010.
“Love = Prison...If U love me you wouldn’t ask me to carry” The message is that if a boyfriend asks you to look after a weapon for him then he does care about you as much as he says - he's putting you at risk. It is whoever is caught with the weapon that gets punished. (Wetherbys women’s prison has had a increase in imates because of this.) By Rachel, Kala Sangam, Bradford 2010.
'Carry a Knife = max 4 years prison' = By Keeley, Kala Sangam, Bradford 2010.
After a talk by Naz from Consequence on what it was like to get sentenced to 9 years in prison for getting caught with 3kg of heroin. Naz talked about how it was when he heard his mother crying when the judge sentenced him when his heart sank. Up until then he didnt care and even chucked his shoe at the judge! What Kailume picked out was that no matter how much of a gangster you you are you still have feelings behind the mask of a badman. Little London, Leeds 2010.
Trayvon in front of If u got a brain use it! piece outside the LL shops. Big up Tray, Macc, Merald, Sav, Reece and Kailume. Leeds July 2011.
Kailume's Hustler record: the harder you come, the harder you fall! Jimmy Cliff sed so. Little London, Leeds 2011.
Kailume's canvas: Ride by the gun die by the it! Little London, Leeds July 2011.