Glen Arkadieff is a London-based artist and photographer. His cache of tapes was rediscovered after he dug into his old belongings while visiting his childhood home, leading to the idea of documenting this collection. The selection taps into a collective nostalgia for analog music formats, evoking memories tied to specific albums and eras.

Glen’s cassette prints embody a unique blend of simplicity and style that resonates with music lovers and art enthusiasts alike. By showcasing real, used tapes from his personal collection, Glen infuses each print with a sense of history and personal connection. The cassette prints create a powerful visual narrative that celebrates the era of cassette tapes while appealing to modern aesthetics. This combination has contributed to the project's enduring popularity and global appeal.

It has been nearly a decade since Glen began photographing his collection, and he continues to produce more cassette prints, seeking out rarer tapes and expanding his catalogue. Selling directly to music fans, industry heads, and celebrities across the globe, Classic Cassette Prints is the original source for cassette prints.

Music is currency, especially in your formative years, and tapes were the perfect medium of exchange. The cassette tape represented a huge pivotal shift in the way music was experienced. It was not only compact, smaller than vinyl, but it could also be shared and traded amongst friends easily. It still contained the artwork, which would be studied to death while the album played. You could take the music anywhere, record off the radio, and creat personalize mixedtapes and compilations at home. The physicality of tape and its unique design are what distinctly separate it from the way music is consumed today

Glen Arkadieff