ANDREASWARHIER L’Hote – Extract

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ANDREASWARHIER L’Hote – Extract

ANDREASWARHIER L’Hote – Extract is Zine from Stickit.

Freight Train

Andreaswarhier is a young urban explorer from Germany. And this time Andreas traveled to Mauritania to ride a freight train through the desert. This is in fact the longest train in the world, with a length of approximately 2.5 kilometers. Travellers are permitted to use the train as if it were a means of public transportation since this is the only fast connection between the capital Nouadhibou and Zouérate. It is a distance of 700 kilometres and it takes around 18 hours to complete the journey.

Mauritania is a country on the west coast of Africa, bordering Western Sahara, Algeria, Mali, Senegal, and the Atlantic Ocean. This zine is a travelogue with many photos of this special trip. A special trip through a vast and dusty landscape.

L’HÔTE extract is a zine with some highlights of the L’HÔTE book.

Instagram: andreaswarhier

Stickit Publishing

Stickit started in early 2001 as a platform to promote the emerging street art movement. Stencil graffiti, poster and sticker art as well as murals and street installations. The website became a fast-growing database to show the diversity of the scene. Creations from young, local artists as well as from now renowned artists. The website also contained a forum to discuss the subjects and meet other artists and like-minded people. Stickit made a lot of friends back then, some are still good friends to this day. For many, this burgeoning scene was a movement without rules and boundaries. Anyone could jump in to express their creativity.

Over the years, their focus has remained the same but now promote the scene in a different way. Today Stickit invite artists to put together a monograph of their work. Usually in the form of a zine. In terms of interpretation, they are completely free. Artists come from different disciplines, with a background equally in street art/graffiti. Stickit is based in Utrecht, The Netherlands, but focused on an international audience.