Jonathan Singer was born in New York City in 1948. He attended the MOMA school for talented artists as a child andlater attended the McBurney Prep School where he studied, photography, art, and art history. After graduating he attended Southampton college, in Long Island, New York where he took art and photography workshops including one with the late Willem DeKooning. In the Fall of 1966 Jonathan met for the first time a professor at Southampton college that would turn his life around. It was the late Ilya Bolotowsky, Neoplastic painter. He became Jonathan's teacher, mentor and long time friend. This relationship lasted until the Ilya's death in 1981. Bolotowsky taught Singer the true essence of art and while he also studied the teachings of famous black and white photographers such as Ansel Adams and Walker Evans. Over the years Singer honed his skills with the brush, canvas and camera and had photographic works published in numerous magazines and had two one man art and photography exhibitions. He considers his work with graffiti & spraycan art as having a two-fold purpose; as a documentary that captures the history of these important urban masterpieces (before they deteriorate with time) and as a promoter of the art form and artists who otherwise may have never been recognized outside the urban community. Using the Giclee method of printing, Jonathan Singer is the only person today who has presented this art form photographically, as "fine art" showing that it is capable of holding its own against any other art movement and by doing such, has now become the personal photographer for many "graf" writers, artists and crews in New