A rigid anti-graffiti policy in the city of New York focused on clean subways and in the 1980s pushed graffiti from the New York subways onto freight trains, on which they traveled across the country, sometimes for decades.

Photo: Sandra Fabara/Aileen Middel.

The most prominent female New York writer Pink painted freight trains early on. Here she collaborates with one of the first European female writers Mick. She comes from Groningen and has been active since 1983.

Photo: Sandra Fabara/Aileen Middel.