Underrated: Lost & Found

Underrated Lost & Found is an independent Graffiti Book and an archival collection of photos of panels on trains in Northeast Italy, taken on the platforms in the 1990s. At the time, it was common for writers and enthusiasts to not only take photos of their own creations, but also document many train graffiti pieces with photographs, since aside from the rare fanzines available, there was no way to track what had just been posted. The author explains that the name Underrated arose from the fact that everyone had underestimated the importance of those pieces on the train, those names, and how those "drawings" would impact their lives. Soon after, Trenitalia's introduction of protective film on trains would change the rules of the game and speed up the removal of the pieces, making the archives even more important. These weren't photos for Instagram; those who had them didn't show them off; they took them for passion, to look at them in front of their camera and find inspiration for their own sketches. The book collects photos from 1996 to 2001, over 200 mostly previously unpublished shots, organized by train type: littorine, regional, interregional, marmotte and sleeperette, postal, and intercity. A genuine project, raw in some ways, but one that will resonate with both the younger generations and the writers of the time. This is a super-limited edition, 150 numbered copies.