DRAGO

DRAGO Drago is an international publisher of street art and culture based in Rome. www.dragopublisher.com

Drago is a publishing house, a think tank, a cultural communication and art consulting company and, above all else, a generator of cultural occasions and energies. All Drago events are conceived as cultural, economic and political platforms. Over the years, Drago has published the works of countless internationally celebrated artists and photographers including JR’s The Wrinkles of the City, Est

evan Oriol’s LA Woman, Ed Templeton’s The Golden Age of Neglect, Boogie’s Ah Wah do Dem, WK Interact’s Act 4, Shephard Fairey , Ricky Adam’s Destroying Everything and Letizia Battaglia’s Anthology and Just For Passion, a book that catalogues her new exhibition at the Maxxi Museum that runs until April 2017. Among these iconic books are anthologies that bring together the best of street art and photography. These include From Style Writing to Art, A Street Art Anthology; Scala Mercalli, The Creative Earthquake of Italian Street Art and Drago’s vast upcoming project, The Street is Watching, Where Street Knowledge Meets Photography.

In a world where the remix culture is at the base of every great invention, King Kong, with their DIY philosophy did not...
12/09/2025

In a world where the remix culture is at the base of every great invention, King Kong, with their DIY philosophy did not literally invent anything, but in fact conceived something fresh, new and original by opening a window onto a whole new world of images, sensations and reconstructions. King Kong is a talented team, that despite being scattered around the world, chose to take on this extraordinary editorial project. By displaying the work of some of the most creative minds from around the globe, the book stunningly shows how different life paths and approaches merge together into a singular perspective of the streets. The artists in this collection are Giorgio Di Salvo , Camilla Donzella , Panda, Lele Saveri and Sha Ribeiro , and their project aims to exhibit personalities and to capture the emotion and clichés of a post-modern, post-political, and post-artistic generation. This beautiful intersection of illustrations and photography is paired with an insightful introductory text by Federico Sarica

From the 36chambers series
King kong - we didn’t invent anything
2007

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. ☀️ Bob MarleyFrom the book This Is Los Angeles
08/09/2025

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. ☀️ Bob Marley

From the book This Is Los Angeles


So much has changed in New York City through-out these years.What it was then, and what it is now is like...”Night and D...
03/09/2025

So much has changed in New York City through-out these years.
What it was then, and what it is now is like...”Night and Day”.
Yet a lot has indeed remained the same...
Smoking blunts, Getting your nails done, Porto-Rican day Parade, Diamond studded ear rings...
Arroz-Con-Pollo, Tattoos, Mix-Tapes...
The same Despair and Hope...
The same sense of Pride...
And the same way of finding new ways to express one-self in unique fashions...

From the 36Chambers series
Maï / JonOne

📚 The Street Is Watching - where the street knowledge meets photography  1) Boogie, Gypsy boys in Belgrade, 1994  2) Tob...
27/08/2025

📚 The Street Is Watching - where the street knowledge meets photography



1) Boogie, Gypsy boys in Belgrade, 1994

2) Tobin Yelland, Andy Roy, Sacramento , 1995

3) Daniele Tamagni, El golpe, Carmen Rosa & Yulia la Pacena, from the series The Flying Cholitas, La Paz, 2010

4) Amanda Lopez, Homegirls, 2008

5) JR, 28 Millimeters - Portrait of a Generation, Braquage, Ladj Ly by JR

6) Ricky Powell Tune In Compton, Eazy-E. “The Hilton Hotel on 51st and 6th. Interviewing him for a single he was about to publish called 187. He was very cool. He presented me with a blunt at the door. He said, ‘Ricky Powell, this is for you,’” New York, 1993

📚All You Can Eat 🖋️  🍕🍑🍌🍰🍪🍆🍖🦐
23/08/2025

📚All You Can Eat
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🍕🍑🍌🍰🍪🍆🍖🦐

From the book Neapolis 📚📸
20/08/2025

From the book Neapolis 📚
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From the book Rebels - from Punk to Dior by Janette Beckman  1) Ice Cube at his mom’s house, Inglewood, California, 1990...
14/08/2025

From the book Rebels - from Punk to Dior by Janette Beckman

1) Ice Cube at his mom’s house, Inglewood, California, 1990
2) Tracy Chapman, New York City, 1988
3) Run-DMC, New York City 1988
4) The Beastie Boys with Rick Rubin, New York City, 1985
5) Boo Yaa T.R.I.B.E., Los Angeles, 1990.
6) Melle Mel, New York City, 1987
7) Stetsasonic, Brooklyn, NY, 1988
8) De La Soul, Long Island, NY 1990

🛹 🚲 📖 Destroying Everything Seems Like the Only Option 📸 Ricky Adam  1) Leeds, U.K. 2004 - From protest to resistance.2)...
12/08/2025

🛹 🚲 📖 Destroying Everything Seems Like the Only Option
📸 Ricky Adam

1) Leeds, U.K. 2004 - From protest to resistance.

2) Ben Lewis - Liverpool, U.K. 2010 - Us against the world

3) Kyle - Leeds, U.K. 2010- Moist fog drifts in from the west, covering everything in flat grey light. Under it everything turns translucent and unreal.

4) Edwin Delarosa - Barcelona, Spain 2005 - Something for nothing.

5) Owain Clegg - U.K. 2006 - Make art not war! An acoustic sound mirror built as early warning devices around the coasts of Britain, with the aim of detecting airborne invasions.They were soon made redundant with the invention of radar.

6) Ireland 2009 - “Your god is your chains Reject your god reject your system Do you really want your freedom.” No Gods No Masters - Amebix

August 2023: one of the hottest ever. Rome is deserted and those who haven’t escaped are struggling with their own demon...
09/08/2025

August 2023: one of the hottest ever. Rome is deserted and those who haven’t escaped are struggling with their own demons. Luca has one thought, and it’s on the walls of his neighborhood. So he calls Marco, his long-time friend with the same background and the same zip code: that’s it. One makes the glue and attaches the posters, the other takes the photos. Analog. And we are immediately twenty years back, when Montesacro was truly a suburb and the street was truly a stage.
Eighteenth chapter of the 36chambers series, Colla 00139 is a divertissement by an artist and a photographer. It’s a goodbye home because, when you leave, you always come back, sooner or later. It is a declaration of love to those who have turned their passion into a profession.

Colla 00139 is a book that, in 132 pages and more than 100 photos, tells the story of a city that is always moving and changing and continue to insipire his multidisciplinary artists.

📚 Colla 00139
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From the book Crash Kid - A Hip Hop Legacy Could there be much more of a perfect alias for the young man who brought Ame...
04/08/2025

From the book Crash Kid - A Hip Hop Legacy
Could there be much more of a perfect alias for the young man who brought American subculture to Rome and did so with such a level of vivacity that politics really was as much a part of the party as anything else? The young man behind the name, Massimo was a pivotal figure and not simply in the image of him spinning and pirouetting around the dance floor from the top of his head, as he perfected the iconic dance move of the underground street dance scene, the head spin. He was pivotal in the party scene and in the Friday and Saturday nights of his street dance compatriots, in their vision for their own futures and good times and weekend plans.

Curated by Napal and Ben Matundu


📚The Serra Effect from the 46 Chambers series📸  Under  the image,  it says “unique”… and “classic”… And this is the only...
01/08/2025

📚The Serra Effect from the 46 Chambers series
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Under the image, it says “unique”… and “classic”… And this is the only photobook I know where you can see the author on every page recording his, pardon the term, environment. ABSOLUTELY CLASSIC and strangely unique: California time capsule, Madison Avenue touches, city shenanigans, family scrapbook, nuclear waste, bicoastal flexibility, grinds and big airs, so true to itself, the unique head behind the viewfinder: America authentica -Pure Ivory. - Peter Beard

Very few young photographers have Ivory Serra’s knack for being in the right place at the right time. Whether it be a posed studio portrait of a famous artist or a candid snapshot of a skateboarder, Ivory has continually amazed me not only in his ability to catch a moment, but to do it beautifully with spirit and panache. - Aaron Rose

📚 This is Los Angeles📸  The time to hesitate is throughNo time to wallow in the mireTry now, we can only loseAnd our lov...
29/07/2025

📚 This is Los Angeles
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The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now, we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre

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Via Maria Adelaide, 12
Rome
00196

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