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2001. After a decade of railway graffiti, Opak and the SDK crew stop painting trains in France, caught up in the legal system. Twelve years later, SNCF accelerates the scrapping of the country’s most beautiful trains and officially announces the death of the famous “petits gris.” That’s the trigger—Opak goes on a quest to paint all these legendary trains one last time.
In the form of a logbook, Olivier Scuro reveals in the first volume of Painted Graves the details of this adventure and its origins in the 1990s through numerous archive photos.
The second volume pays tribute to friends lost too soon: Risk (Finland), Stone (France), Remo (Switzerland), Math (Netherlands), Nesh (Austria), Choc (Belgium), Ruzd (Germany), and Aone (United States). Travels, flashbacks, and the quest that comes to an end. Most of these trains—painted or not—have now disappeared as well.
The two books feature 342 photos across 548 pages, including 100 pages of narrative in French and English.
Produced in a limited edition of 660 copies, the collector’s box set brings together Painted Graves Volume 1, Painted Graves Volume 2, and Painted Graves – Relics in a luxurious case.
Relics completes Painted Graves with 7 unpublished texts and 101 photos, compiled in a 160-page full-color book available exclusively in the box set.
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Facts:
- Release 04.12.2025
- 3 Books in a Box
- Size 21 x 27 / 21 x 27 / 17 x 21
- 300 / 248 / 160 pages
- English, French
- Sabotage Editions
- ISBN 979-1-097946-33-3
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