Skateboarding
SkateYou: The app connecting skaters across the globe
Social media by and for skaters — SkateYou founder Jerry Tsagamilis explains how the app helps skaters share spots, tricks, win prizes and build community.
Written by: Alex King
Video: Skateboarding through Italy's modern ruins
Discovering abandoned places — Trailing across Italy in search of unchartered skate territory the Italian Vans team stir dust clouds, improvise skateable constructions and risk getting crushed by a collapsing wall.
Written by: Hanna Duggal
Photographer Marc Vallée on two decades of documenting youth culture
Shooting, spraying and the streets — Prolific photographer and DIY zinemaker Marc Vallée gives us the lowdown on his self-publishing talk at Tate.
Written by: Alex King
The Mongolians turning skateboarding dreams into a new scene in Ulaanbaatar
Young Blood — More than half the population of Mongolia is under 30. Caught between the expectations of their parents and a future only they can see, skateboarders in Ulaanbaatar are breaking from convention to prove their vision is more than just a dream.
Written by: Bejan Siavoshy
The radical career of skate photographer J. Grant Brittain
The good, the rad and the gnarly... — When J. Grant Brittain turned his camera on his skateboarder friends, he helped kids like Tony Hawk become icons of their time. But it wasn't just action that kept his lens transfixed.
Written by: J. Grant Brittain
Video: Life as an illegal tattoo artist in Havana
One foot forward... — A free-market economy is transforming Cuba... but one skateboarder feels torn over his country's changing identity.
Written by: HUCK HQ
How a skater’s lustful scribbles on cardboard are helping opera to evolve
Defiant scrawls of love — Progressive composer Shinji Eshima collaborates with skater-turned writer Scott Bourne to update contemporary opera with modern musings on love.
Written by: Alex King
The pioneering kids behind Ethiopia's emerging skate scene
Skating beyond borders — Documentary photographer Daniel Reiter has captured images of Addis Ababa's emerging skate scene. The sprawling Ethiopian capital is home to a new generation dreaming big, here Daniel explains how he got involved.
Written by: Jason Nicco-Annan
Dos jovenes Cubanos, y sus grandes sueños de patinar
El precio de sueños grandes — Para ser un skater en Cuba, necesita imaginación. A causa de las embargos comerciales, no hay tablas decentes ni materiales. Este es la cuenta de dos skaters con lo mismo sueño.
Written by: Carlos Álvarez Rodríguez / Juan Cruz Rodriguez
In Pictures: The evolution of Mongolia’s fledgling skateboarding scene
From Dirt to Dust — Meet the skateboarders building a new community and fighting for space in a rapidly changing country.
Written by: Alex King