Den Gino is a man of many trades. He lives in a squatted house in a village that will be wiped off the map in a few years time. Meanwhile he's totally self-sustaining himself by poaching rabbits, fishing fish and drinking beer. He grows his own weed and fruit he never eats. Also, Den Gino never walks. He drives an old, beat-up Toyota through the village, pissing off the few people that still live there. They call him 'the sherif' sometimes.
Den Gino has three kids, two boys and a girl. Every weekend the kids come to visit their father in the squatted house. It's called co-parenting or something. Den Gino then drives around the village with his kids in the little red car, or sometimes the kids run behind the car while he is driving. At night, they all go to the house, throw a waterrat on the barbecue and the kids play Tekken on the playstation. Den Gino's daughter makes a mean salad and she always beats her brothers with Tekken. One time, she got harassed by a gypsy teenager that was also living in the village at the time. When Den Gino heard about this, he took the kid to an orchard where the gypsies always go to slaughter their sheep, and next to a freshly slaughtered woolball he gave the kid the beating of a lifetime. After that, the gypsy teenager left the village, together with his family.
Traveling around the cityscapes and countryside / going deep down into the social bottom or getting up as a ‘top of youth’ / party heavy cavalry or melancholic hangovers/ spray-mania and graffiti magic / dead language messages and runic communication / weird fetish admirers and strange secret cult followers / teenage elitism and the dandyism / ghetto gothica and the neanderthalian renaissance / nomadic nocturnal fauna in the car lights / street champagne campaign and the marauders in the rich area / walking through the traffic jam / talking to the animals / dancing on the ceiling and drunk ‘saloon fights’ in slow motion/
The “WE ARE THE CITY SCUM” ‘foto-punk’ zine is a collective contribution work of the four sophisticated graffiti-writers and enthusiastic photographers from Ukraine. Their ‘trashrealistic’ chronicles reflect the spirit, the feeling and the views of new emancipated Ukrainian youth.
