You can call cave paintings the first kind of graffiti art to exist. For people back then, it was their way of expressing their lifestyle — the animals, their hunting patterns and their day-to-day events. The other prominent development in the field was the New York Bronx graffiti scene, which served as a way for African-Americans to voice their concerns against lack of rights and accessibility to education,” says Omkar Dhareshwar, founder of Wicked Broz, an art collective in the city that represents graffiti artists. “It began with kids who created pseudonyms for themselves, and played around with letters on New York’s Subway station. It was a way to reclaim their identity and in a way express themselves too,” he adds. 

Carter with one of his graffiti murals at Model Town, Andheri East