Bristol artists paint baby faces on London street shop shutters to deter vandals

As some of the best graffiti artists from the UK and across the world come to Bristol for See No Evil all this week, artists’ collective The Paintsmiths of Bristol travelled to London to paint a street in Woolwich as part of a psychological experiment by advertising agency Ogilvy.

Shop shutters in the street have been painted with babies’ faces to help rejuvinate the area after last year’s riots, and also to support the theory that such images can have a calming effect.