The Vagabundler Project – An international Collective – Art Love, Urban Documentation & Culture Preservation – Vagabundler

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A lot changed since its beginning in August 2017 and meanwhile this Vagabundler Project became a networking collaborative creation where passionate art lovers from all around the world started taking part. As of June 2026, we have 260.000 photos, spread across more than 25.000 individual pages and 160 maps – including 55 city maps – from 100 different countries, along with more than 500 interviews transcribed or available in audio format. And it is still growing. Wonderful!

Frank Hofmann is building up the Hamburg Map with more than 1300 spots and 9000 photos, Salvador Seda from Chile is doing an historical documentation about the graffiti world in Angol via the Angol Map, Holger Peter from Berlin contributes fabulous murals and character artworks for the Berlin Map with excellent recherche and at the moment with more than 10.000 pages and over 89.000 photos. Patrice Loranger works with wonderful storytelling about the artworks on the Montréal Map, the awesome photographer Irxnschmoiz offers images for the maps of Hannover, Bremerhaven, Dortmund, Braunschweig and Hildesheim with superb quality and also to numerous other places in Germany. Milau Lutumba aka Delutu takes great photos and movies in Paris, Agnieszka Pisarska creates various articles and several maps all over Poland and Mazzanti contributes content from Stockholm. Fiona Lu from Canada joined and is building up the great map of Vancouver, Caley Costley works on fabulous artworks from Los Angeles. With Luigi Savoia we just started the Map for Turin, with Analía Pertusi aka Perts Jam there grows an fantastic archive on the Buenos Aires Map, photographer Julien Canadas brings great photos with additional videos for the Toulouse Map and Bart Hagel aka Street Art Damsko works on the Amsterdam Map. Fantastic urban artworks from Australia photographed by Natalie Pomeroy aka Streetart Wombler are on the Melbourne Map and beautiful Ecuadorian urban art gets regularly contributed by Gail Lochner from Cuenca. With Mike Hennessey aka See Some Streetart we started to create the Map for Almaty in Kazakhstan. And there are a few more … This idea has become a wonderful flourishing project in which many creative and heartful people from all over the world are constructing together. If you want to participate, just write us to info@vagabundler.com. You can check the several city maps here, some of the contributors have already own profile pages in the culturists section. Besides that you will find regularly published articles and interviews from the whole team!

Our Mission  –  Why are we doing this here?

First and foremost, we are lovers of art, colors, diversity and creativity. In addition to the joy of observing, we also enjoy taking photos. And that’s not even enough, we want to show it to others too. But for us, it’s not just about our photos, it’s much more about the motif itself, what’s behind it and also about those who made it. This online platform is a collaboration of many creative, lovingly people from all around the world, who are passionately involved in this non-profit project. Partly it comes out of our own interest, but we all in the team have a strong additional motivation and a will to make urban art and everything that it defines and entails better known and to provide information about it. In addition to the photo galleries, we try to let the artists and makers have their own say in interviews. The Vagabundler collective is a small family interested in creativity that informs, documents and archives. Many works of art in public space are no longer available after a short time, and often there are not even photos of them. This website offers a database of beautiful works from places around the world. Apart from the art perspective, which already is a huge reason why the works have to be documented, it is clearly also a socio-cultural phenomenon. It has to be reported on and we try to mediate, explain and create access and maybe even connections. Urban art and art in general is a form of human expression in our society. There is great value in it and there are many messages included. We try our best to show you this fantastic colorful world and the creators behind, to explain it and to bring it closer to you.

2021  –  The Vagabundler Crew  –  An International Collective

Posting from 26th July 2021:  A few words about the Vagabundler project and all the interesting things that have happened in the meantime. Over 1000 articles, 70 country maps, 38 city maps, 7700 individual pages and far more than 100.000 photos later. I am overwhelmed, excited and also very proud of our creative and international team! Thank you to everyone involved in this project! Despite the many unceasing negative events in the world, something very beautiful has also emerged here. Last year in March I was in Ireland with Frank...