Painted Graves- Box Set- OPAK SDK

Description

Title: Painted Graves Box Set
Author: Olivier Scuro
Release date: December 4, 2025
Format: 23 x 29 x 8.5 cm
Weight: 3640 gr.
Hardcover
248 color pages
Language: French / English

Magnetic opening box set

3 books PG1, PG2, RELICS included

Painted Graves Box Set

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.

The collector’s box set brings together (in a luxurious case):

Painted Graves Volume 1
Painted Graves Volume 2
Painted Graves – Relics

Relics completes Painted Graves with 7 unpublished texts and 101 photos, compiled in a 160-page full-color book available exclusively in the box set.

VOLUME I:
• 300 pages, featuring Opak, Inxs, Honet, Pum, Fancie, Riot, Sime, Milk, Poes, Chill, Acid79, Skeme…

VOLUME II:
• 248 pages featuring Opak, Risk, Stone, Remo, Math, Nesh, Choc, Ruzd, Aone mais aussi Inxs, Pum, Honet, Riot, Jiwee, Foe, Vino, Kaos, Micro, Lyte, Sharp…

RELICS:
• 160 pages full color book with 7 unpublished text and 101 photos.

Sabotage Editions
Following Dirty Handz, Sao Paulo Signature, and Xplicit Grafx magazine’s epic run (1992–2009), Sabotage Editions is back in 2025. The world of train graffiti hides tightly kept secrets, and the “tales from the rails” by Sabotage Editions dive into their mysteries. Painted Graves opens the series with untold stories of the golden age of graffiti on trains, with more to come.

Olivier Scuro
Olivier Scuro, better known by his alias Opak, has been painting trains since 1990. 35 years later, he chronicles his journey through words and images, crafting unconventional photo-novels. In 2025, Painted Graves lays the cornerstone of this ambitious edifice.