Please don't ask me where I take my pictures... Due to the increased efforts by the LAPD to catch graffiti artist ... I will not now or never have named the spots that I take pictures..

There is only one person that I will give this information to and he knows who he is... We are already talking....

Now again don't ask me or email me.....

 

I didn't want to do it...but I feel in love with Los Angeles after living here for the last 13 years I now embrace California as home.. While my heart is always in New Mexico I am content in LA.. I meet my husband in Los Angeles we have been married since 11-11-95. With each other since 11/93.. Still going and we haven’t killed each other..

About 2 years ago I traded in the job working at one of the big porn ranches in Van Nuys, CA. As the Accounts Payable Supervisor to become a Stagehand. What a damn great ride that has been. I am competing with young men that are half my age.. Guess the hell what? I did the damn thing.. So there.

My family Alex my husband, Ashley and Alexis still live at home. While my son and his wife live in Eagle Rock, CA. I have become like I said earlier quite a fan of Los Angeles. I love just about everything about it except the damn traffic.

Living in Los Angeles is large with great things to get caught up in... The one thing that has helped me to really explore Los Angeles is my camera... I really have jumped right in to the local Graffiti Culture...

I actually am to the point where I get notes when Writing is going down.. That is a big thing for me.. Its a trust factor... I get shots first... I know that not everyone has a love for graffiti. After all we know that its illegal or at least most of it is.... so I feel you... I just really believe that most of these artists are so talented... So I take my hat off to them by documenting their art...

What kind of photographer am I...? Just point and shoot.. No crops.. No photoshops.. Nada just point and shoot....

I hope you enjoy my images...And if you don’t I won’t be offended.. They are not for everyone.. Really its an acquired thing.. I understand… But really its here to stay and will document things for generations to come….

Peace

Im Chele In LA. Get yours at bighugelabs.com/flickr

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Testimonials

©WayneHB says:

I've been snappin' graff for quite a few years and thought i was committed, but this girl takes it to a whole new level. Virtually everyday a batch of new pics to blow your mind and make your love of graffiti grow. Chele is truely a Flickr treasure to be faved and added and viewed, just remember to add comment as well!… Read more

I've been snappin' graff for quite a few years and thought i was committed, but this girl takes it to a whole new level. Virtually everyday a batch of new pics to blow your mind and make your love of graffiti grow. Chele is truely a Flickr treasure to be faved and added and viewed, just remember to add comment as well! Thanks for all your dope pics Chele, plenty more to come i'm sure, can't wait:)

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April 7, 2007

Chele is a true Documentarian. Nuff said.

February 23, 2007

Chele In LA has become a staple of my Flickr diet. I've loved Los Angeles graffiti for decades now. Just when I start to look down on the scene because of the politics and egotrippin', she picks me back up and reveals the life that I thought was lost with the culture. The graff scene has inspired me on so many level… Read more

Chele In LA has become a staple of my Flickr diet. I've loved Los Angeles graffiti for decades now. Just when I start to look down on the scene because of the politics and egotrippin', she picks me back up and reveals the life that I thought was lost with the culture. The graff scene has inspired me on so many levels and looking at her pictures reminds me of that. Los Angeles graffiti is DEEP! and often times overlooked but she gets right in there and exposes what others are missing. I look forward to looking at her sight to see what she is going to download next. I hope you feel the same and get caught up in vapors.

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January 26, 2007
Polite Notebook (deleted)

Chele blows my hair back...

January 23, 2007

Chele is a documentarian. She lends immortality to an essentially ephemeral art form. Her love of street art transcends her photographs, nurturing and inspiring us. Her heart is full of love and wonder. She gives so much of herself to this culture, and to its participants. Her encouragement has given me the strength to… Read more

Chele is a documentarian. She lends immortality to an essentially ephemeral art form. Her love of street art transcends her photographs, nurturing and inspiring us. Her heart is full of love and wonder. She gives so much of herself to this culture, and to its participants. Her encouragement has given me the strength to move forward at a time when my own work was being dismissed as trash by those closest to me. For this I am eternally grateful. I was honored to send her a huge package of stickers and instrumental Hip-Hop, probably the largest such package I've ever sent to anyone. She always tells me that she wishes she could draw the things I do, and I am always telling her that she can. I believe she could probably do better than I ever will. Chele is an angel. I am so grateful to have discovered her and her unique appreciation of the world's most influential artistic movement.

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January 15, 2007

Chele's photostream is a documentary of LA graff. One of the best we've come across so far! HOW DOES SHE DO IT? The average person may never know. ;p

January 4, 2007
Broken Bike (deleted)

Chele has an extreme passion for graffiti ... her contributions will prove extremely valuable to the preservation of the art form Chances are if you have painted a piece in LA... she has flicked it Thanks Chele!!!

January 4, 2007

You know there are some things so right with the world when you click with an awesome human being, on so many levels, clear across the country!!! Chele in LA has profoundly and selfishlessly dedicated her passion, and love of Graffiti, to document and share with the world, these amazing works of art. Li… Read more

You know there are some things so right with the world when you click with an awesome human being, on so many levels, clear across the country!!! Chele in LA has profoundly and selfishlessly dedicated her passion, and love of Graffiti, to document and share with the world, these amazing works of art. Like sandcastles, are gone in the blink of an eye!!! Chele in LA sees the art, the talent, the commitment and compassionately sees every drop of paint as beauty! And, I am quite sure see is shooting much of this in the most undesirable of areas, that most full grown men might think twice about!!!! Love, Respect, and Peace!! ~Angelina

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January 4, 2007

Chele discovers so much more in LA in a day than I've seen in years ...

November 19, 2006
JShine says:

chele in la and chele in the graff capture mode x1000. this woman knows where to look, and just how far to go in order to scoop dope dope street visuals from the la/cali area. chele is a true lover for writing in the streets. she is a persistant graff hunter who will go to great legnths to capture photos in barriered … Read more

chele in la and chele in the graff capture mode x1000. this woman knows where to look, and just how far to go in order to scoop dope dope street visuals from the la/cali area. chele is a true lover for writing in the streets. she is a persistant graff hunter who will go to great legnths to capture photos in barriered areas, and to label all uploaded photos correctly so as to give credit where deserved. chele will not fail to please ur visuals with cali street art fliks that would otherwise remain a mystery to the massses.

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October 21, 2006

Great photos! You may spend hours lookin at them! Great documentary and extremely inspirational too!!

October 14, 2006
ragged mass (deleted)

L.A. L.A. Big City of Dreams ... I've never been to LA in my life, but thanks to Chele, I've the City of Angels, right here, right now, just in front of me. Each day, I come here on Flickr, and look her photos : always new graffs, new styles, new masterpieces, new letters, new colors ! We are quite the same (just … Read more

L.A. L.A. Big City of Dreams ... I've never been to LA in my life, but thanks to Chele, I've the City of Angels, right here, right now, just in front of me. Each day, I come here on Flickr, and look her photos : always new graffs, new styles, new masterpieces, new letters, new colors ! We are quite the same (just can't get enough, my friend). You're a great inspiration to me, Chele : My L.A. connection =)

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September 27, 2006

One word describes Chele's continuous efforts to show me and you and those dam critics and posh tits in their galleries that graffitti is what it is...art. Her photos are very much inspirational as the work is in them too. Ohh back to what I was saying before the word for your photos is as you come to expect it from me… Read more

One word describes Chele's continuous efforts to show me and you and those dam critics and posh tits in their galleries that graffitti is what it is...art. Her photos are very much inspirational as the work is in them too. Ohh back to what I was saying before the word for your photos is as you come to expect it from me...A W E S O M E!

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September 23, 2006

I love the quality of pics you take, keep em coming!!!.

September 9, 2006
Silent Cup (deleted)

Adventuresome... honest... hardworking... strong...

August 1, 2006
Anya says:

She loves graffiti, i mean she really LOVES it...the places she goes to, oh boy..but the results, check for yourself!

July 28, 2006

hardcore.

July 10, 2006
ro_jo_sul says:

Chele manages to consistently provide high quality shots of graf from her area. She knows the spots and gets the shots!

June 2, 2006