Steve Lazarides

[citation needed] Lazarides documented British sub-cultures and youth movements such as the UK rave scene in the early 1990s; skate culture and the rise of outsider street art.

[citation needed] Lazarides and Banksy also launched the 'Pictures on Walls' website in 2001 to promote graffiti art, and widened their scope to work with a larger roster of street artists.

The market in street art became commercially successful in 2007 only shortly before the 2008 recession, with Banksy's work, "Laugh Now", selling for £228,000 at auction in early 2008.

[6] Andrew Child wrote in the Financial Times, "If there had been one individual responsible for whipping up and sustaining the fever around urban art, and who stood to lose most from its demise, it was Steve Lazarides.".

[6] He pioneered the contemporary 'immersive art' trend with several 'pop-up' shows, including Hell's Half Acre in October 2010, co-curated with actor Kevin Spacey and held in The Old Vic Tunnels beneath Waterloo station, London.

These pop-up shows have included work by Doug Foster, Conor Harrington, Lucy McLauchlan, Antony Micallef, Karim Zeriahen, Stanley Donwood, Vhils, Todd James and Ian Francis.

Volume Two includes reportage from Banksy's 2006 Los Angeles exhibition "Barely Legal", images of the artist's unauthorised installation inside London's Natural History Museum during 2004.