To begin the final Stencil Archive upgrade push in the EU zones, we dove right in with the 2007 Difusor festival images. Difusor still stands out as an amazing moment in street art history, back when there weren't many festivals, especially just for stencil art. Difusor connected the European 1980s artists with the new wave, featured several artists that have become quite successful, and looked like a damn good time painting walls and cutting paper. We were very glad to include it as a community focus in the 2008 "Stencil Nation" book.
For the Difusor archive upgrade, some of the decisions to make were easy: re-do/move all the artist sub-archive images to the artists' main archives, try to identify other artist images and move those, attempt to rename some images for clarity, add text at the top of the archive, and delete any duplicates. This took some time, but was worth it.
Other actions were a bit more difficult: what to do with all the collab wall photos, try to identify more artists, what to do with artists getting new archives that do not have a location, find the Difusor website, look in the old "Stencil Nation" book files to see who took these photos, and then the whole renaming process. In 2007, Barcelona photographer Maya World of Stencils took all these photos and was nice enough to send them all to be part of the Stencil Archive. We have given her proper credit in the main archive, and want to thank her again for sending all these.
There are about six new artist archives pulled out of these Difusor photos. As we roll through the final EU artist upgrades, they will be noted with the usual ">NEW<" notice.