Signs | Pit Buehler

SIGNS – Between Hope and Resistance

People leave traces. Graffiti, symbols, walls, and fragments tell of hope, resistance, memory, and longing. Sometimes humorous, sometimes critical or romantic, they capture the spirit of the places I have encountered on my travels and complement Humans around the social voice of their time.

Weathered wall with pastel butterfly graffiti, green vines at the base, and a vertical pipe on the left.

Hungary | 2010

Old green metal-framed window with shattered panes set in a graffiti-covered concrete wall, urban decay scene.

Vienna | Austria | 2009

Weathered white panel on a metal structure vandalized with black silhouette graffiti of two people facing each other; red text along the bottom and orange sticker art on the side, in a park by the water.

Zug | Switzerland | 2021

Bratislava | Slovakia | 2009

Red stencil on a gray concrete wall reading 'POLITIKER LÜGEN NIE' (Politicians never lie).

Zug | Switzerland | 2021

Gray metal door with a red stencil of a smiling child, a padlock latch, and scattered graffiti/faded marks.

Vienna | Austria | 2009

Sticker of a vintage-looking boy in overalls on a beige poster pasted to a weathered gray lamppost in a city street with red-brick buildings in the background.

New York | USA | 2009

Close-up of a rough concrete wall with turquoise spray-painted lines and black graffiti markings.

Munich | Germany | 2013

Graffiti-covered wall with a stencil of a red, anatomically detailed human figure in the center, surrounded by colorful spray-painted tags and shapes.

Belgrade | Serbia | 2014

Every trace tells of a person who was once here. Some places tell the same story, even when no one is there anymore.

Every trace eventually becomes a memory.

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