The Reuters Banksy investigation

What did the Reuters Banksy investigation reveal?

In March 2026, Reuters published “In Search of Banksy” — a major investigation into the artist's identity and early operations, drawing on multiple primary-source archives. The article represents Reuters's own reporting and conclusions; this page is not a summary of them. Read it directly at reuters.com.

The Daily Mail independently confirmed Banksy Captured as one of the primary sources during the same period.

How is Banksy Captured connected to the Reuters investigation?

Banksy Captured is Steve Lazarides's photographic archive of the years 1997–2008 — when he was Banksy's photographer, agent, and closest collaborator. Because it's a first-hand visual record of that period from inside the working circle, it contains material that isn't available elsewhere.

Reuters used the book the way any investigative outlet uses a primary-source archive — as reference material. AART SPACE and Steve Lazarides are not authors, co-authors, or co-publishers of the Reuters piece. The book was published years earlier and stands on its own.

What is inside the Banksy Captured archive?

More than 10,000 photographs spanning eleven years of Steve's work alongside Banksy — warehouse sessions, late-night street pieces, gallery installations, tour documentation, and the major shows of that era (Turf War, Barely Legal, the Bethlehem trips). Most had never been published before the books.

The books don't make or endorse any identity claim about Banksy. They are a photographic record of the work, not a biography of the person. What readers and investigators take from the record is their own business; Steve's position on that has been consistent for two decades.

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