Gary Walters

Summer Houses and Graffiti in Barranco Peru Gary Walters

Interested in graffiti. Barranco now a suburb of Lima was a fishing village then a place where elaborate summer residences were built. It has a terrific beach. Today it is publicized to tourists as a bohemian enclave, but those days are mostly over. In their wake a mixture of elegant houses mostly in disrepair, high rises, shops and restaurants of high and low degree and in the town centre murals and graffiti. This book shows some of this transformation and talks about the strange yet world wide proliferation of graffiti.