Paul Chan's celebrated “OFF SAFETY“ show is finally stopping by in Berlin, and you can check the results at HVW8 Gallery between October 8th - October 31st, 2015.

“Born in the late 70’s and early 80’s from the New York boroughs, by the 90’s hip hop became the voice of the disenfranchised in inner cities battling years of Reaganomics, joblessness, and the crack epidemic that plagued American cities. Paul Chan documented hip hop from 1997 – 2003, a period often referred to as the “Shiny Era.“ Chan, by admission, is not a professional photographer or a studied fine artist. He was a graphic artist for a publication from Southern California called Kronick Magazine. Printed on newsprint, Kronick was on the tail end of the bygone era of analog media. Frustrated with the standard press shots sent by labels and agencies, Paul Chan set out to document these artists with his father’s Nikon F2. The result is intimate, unpolished, and unstaged photos of present day icons shot in candid dialogue.“

Check some impressions from Chan's exhibition at LA's Slow Culture Gallery from last year below.

Opening: Oct 8th, 2015 / 7-10pm / Linienstr. 161 / Berlin
LA's very own Free The Robots will be deejaying during the opening!