Said Kabool, Afghan Cameleer — artwork #10037 by Guido Van Helten · Perth, Australia
graffiti portrait history sepia realism immigration brick-wall
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Guido van Helten was born in 1986 in Brisbane, Australia. After practising graffiti in his youth in Melbourne, he studied visual arts at Southern Cross University in Lismore, New South Wales, majoring in printmaking. He turned to large-scale muralism professionally in 2012, developing an immediately recognisable style: monumental photorealistic portraits, executed with aerosol on raw, often corrod…
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Added 20/04/2026
Hyper-realistic portrait of Said Kabool, an Afghan cameleer who immigrated to Australia, reproduced from his 1916 Certificate of Exemption from Dictation Test. This bureaucratic document, used to control immigration, serves as the starting point for a tribute to the Afghan cameleers who contributed to Western Australian development from the 1850s and to the founding of the Perth Mosque in 1905. The mural is painted directly onto the red bricks of a West Perth building.
The artwork Said Kabool, chamelier afghan is of type graffiti. You can admire it in the city of Perth in Australia, more precisely here: 282 Fitzgerald Street, West Perth WA 6005.
This graffiti is also tagged as: portrait, history, sepia, realism, immigration, brick-wall.
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