POW! WOW!, the fantastic traveling worldwide street art festival, made it’s first journey to Guam in collaboration with The Guam Art eXhibit (GAX) during the last week of September 2017 to collaborate, contribute, share culture and beautify Guam with fascinating art.
POW! WOW! founder Jasper Wong says, “”POW! WOW! has three main missions. One, it is to bring people together through creative pursuits. Two, to educate the youth and public about art and music through workshops, programming, and schools. Three, to beautify communities with art and color. We started in our own hometowns and we have made an effort to expand globally. We are hoping to [have fulfilled] these missions in Korea and build bridges through creative acts.”
You can continue below to see many more images from behind the scenes of the event. All photographs are by Brandon Shigeta:
POW! WOW! traveled to Kobe, Japan for the third year in a row between the dates of October 9th to the 14th, 2017 with artists SLICK, DEFER, Mr. Ogay, ONEQ, WHOLE9 (simo_w9 and hitch_w9), Cab, Cook One, Yoheyy and Ahhi Choi and more to engage the streets and public spaces with art and to help the city even more of a dynamic, culturally-driven space.
Continue below to see many, many more images of the event. All photographs are by Brandon Shigeta:
Upon first glance, photographer Benjamin Von Wong‘s latest work looks like a Photoshop composite that shows a model swimming with sharks below the sea. But what you see is the real deal: Von Wong did actually tie down a model underwater with sharks swimming around, all for a series of surreal (but very real) portraits.
Check out a video of how the a behind-the-scenes look at how the shoot was done:
