Taking Over: Subvertising in NYC by Luna Park

"Taking Over: Subvertising in NYC is a decades long photographic record of interventions by artists and activists. While the output is varied--from graffitied billboards to spoofed ads in phone booths and bus shelters--the intent is the same: to hijack ad space and replace it with alternate messaging. Subvertisers envision public space that is not dominated by advertisements, preferring instead to inject doses of art, humor, and politics into the city's veins. As such interventions are typically short-lived, often removed within 24 hours, photographic documentation plays an essential role in their dissemination."

2026 Katherine Lorimer