Bathroom Graffiti

Mark Ferem

Softcover | 16.92 x 1.35 x 19.3 cm | 160 pp

Mark Batty | 2007 | 9780977282746

We've all been exposed to bathroom graffiti because we've all used public toilets. Often bawdy, funny and clever, sometimes illegible, it is a ubiquitous means of expression found across the world. Do the private, intimate moments in the bathroom provide people the opportunity to freely express themselves, leaving little nuggets of truth and insight for the next user? If you ask Mark Ferem the answer is yes.

Ferem has spent several years collecting and compiling photographs of exceptional bathroom graffiti, making for the perfect bathroom book.

Divided into thematic sections like "men's rooms," "women's rooms, " "unisex" and "random firing weapons," Bathroom Graffiti, unlike other graffiti books, is not so much about graffiti as an apt form as much as it showcases graffiti as the result of anonymous personal expression, which will never find its way into galleries or ad campaigns.