What they said

Traced its breakthrough evidence chain to material inside Banksy Captured.

Independently confirmed the book as a primary source in the investigation.

A remarkable visual archive capturing the raw energy of Banksy’s early work.

Lazarides’s 250-page book of photographs document the 11 years that the former dealer worked with Banksy as his agent, photographer, and right-hand man. The images lift the veil on the secrecy surrounding the elusive artist, offering a behind-the-scenes look at some of his famous works while they were being executed.Source →

The photographs of Banksy at work, along with shots of some of his street art, are published in a new book by Mr Lazarides — Banksy Captured.Source →

There’s a line in Goodfellas I love, which is like, they live like kings, but they had none of the responsibility. And that’s what this time was like. It was pure anarchy.Source →

It really resonated with the times and it was interesting — and so much art is f***ing boring. The reason people liked it is because they could get it. He didn’t make people feel stupid. He resonated with people.Source →

Banksy Captured Vol. 1 is his visual confession: not a coffee-table celebration, but a brilliant memoir told in pictures.Source →

Every great cultural movement has its accidental archivist. For the birth of 21st-century street art, it was Steve Lazarides, Banksy’s friend, driver, fixer, photographer, and reluctant myth-builder.Source →

Before the galleries, before the auctions, before the anonymity became a brand, there was Bristol, rain-soaked, raw, and fiercely creative.Source →

What makes Vol. 1 so intoxicating is its sense of accidental prophecy. Every frame carries the weight of future legend: the artist painting under bridges, hanging on fences, stencilling…Source →

If Banksy Captured Vol. 1 was the birth of rebellion, Banksy Captured Vol. 2 is its adolescence, swaggering, ambitious, and slightly hung-over from success.Source →

Lazarides’ prose remains dry, funny, and bruised by hindsight. He writes as a man who didn’t realise he was documenting history until the dust settled.Source →

Lazarides’ photographs frame this moment with cinematic clarity. You see the art not as object but as incident, blurred bus in motion, a passer-by half turned, the brief electric spark between illegal act and public apathy.Source →

These are the years when Banksy went from ghost to global myth, from walls and whispers to headlines and Hollywood. Yet, through Lazarides’ gritty narration and faultless timing, what emerges isn’t celebrity — it’s creation under siege.Source →

Banksy Captured is the closest you get to a myth being revealed — every frame is a fleeting incident, not just a static object. The book is a piece of living history, bracingly unpolished.Source →

If you want a book that documents the gritty genesis of twenty-first-century street art, this is the one. Lazarides takes you behind the curtain, from rain-soaked bridges to shadowy studio spaces — raw, funny, and vital.Source →

Lazarides writes with bruised hindsight, blending nostalgia and dry humour. Banksy Captured isn’t just a photo book; it’s a memoir, an accidental time capsule of a scene as it exploded.Source →

A book for those who want the truth about a movement, not its myth. Lazarides was there, camera in hand, with only a rough sense of how big it would become.Source →

Originally selling out in 30 minutes this limited edition book by Steve Lazarides charts the meteoric rise in a modern day Robin Hood — the artist known as Banksy.Source →

Unparalleled access to the myth behind the artist.Source →

A blue-chip collector’s piece — a historical artefact with lasting significance.Source →

An intimate, raw, and often humorous look at the making of a legend.Source →

No other publication provides such raw, behind-the-scenes access to one of the most influential cultural figures of our time.Source →

Packed with striking visuals and untold stories, Banksy Captured is a must-have for street art enthusiasts, photography lovers, and anyone fascinated by the mystery of Banksy himself.Source →

For collectors, this is more than a photobook. It’s a time capsule of contemporary art history, offering an unfiltered look at the making of a legend.Source →

With exclusive access that no one else had, Lazarides documents both the public works and the unseen behind-the-scenes moments. The kind of images that may never surface again.Source →

Collectors instantly recognized its value — first editions are changing hands for three to five times the issue price. If you missed out, good luck: it’s already a holy grail for street art fans.Source →

People think it was this construct to make himself more interesting, or some great marketing ploy, but it wasn’t. It was self-preservation rather than self-promotion.Source →

Banksy Captured by Steve Lazarides charts the birth of our modern day Robin Hood. A true art legend, a man able to articulate the voice of subculture that made its way to the mainstream.Source →

I worked with him for 11 glorious years, during which time we broke every rule in the rule book, along with a fair few laws.Source →

The negatives for these pictures lay in Lazarides’ loft for many years. Whilst Banksy’s rise to fame became undeniable these pictures took on a different meaning than just personal, private documentation.Source →

My love of photography was borne from my love of graffiti…Source →

At the time, Lazarides says he was unaware he was documenting history. ‘It never really hit,’ he says. ‘I think it’s only now looking back with hindsight that I can see that. It didn’t even after we split up, I couldn’t see it. From the very beginning I knew his work was amazing and that’s why I worked with him.’Source →

It was only very recently, when looking through the whole of my entire archive, that I began to see the cultural value of this body of work. The portraits, reportage of Banksy putting works on the streets, shots in the studio and the documentation of his early art, have not had the airtime they deserve.Source →

BANKSY CAPTURED by Steve Lazarides charts the birth of our modern day Robin Hood. A true art legend, a man able to articulate the voice of subculture that made its way to the mainstream.Source →

Along with never before heard tales of the artist at work and absurdist capers from their time working together BANKSY CAPTURED shares a moment in time before the art world and most of the globe took note.Source →

Unboxing Banksy Captured — the detail, the stories, the madness. If you’re serious about street art, there’s nothing close.Source →

Not just for art nerds: this is for anyone who cares about cultural history. No marketing fluff, just real voices and raw moments.Source →

Every image has that feeling of something secret, something legendary. You turn the page and step into an untold chapter of Banksy’s world.Source →