City 01 Skate Days, 2015. Skatepark Monte Tossal (Castillo San Fernando). Alicante. Spain. Blue on the ramp

Skateboarding is becoming popular in many inland areas as well as along Southern California coastline. The beach cities seem to have had a head start on everyone and with good reason. Skateboarding evolved from the sport and art of surfing and many similitaries can be seen in the act of sidewalk surfing.

Some riders seem to attain peek skateboarding performance in a short time, a peak that is difficult for the mayority or enthusiast to ever hope to reach. Once reached, one has to keep practicing to remain at that level. When you first see one of these «peak performers» or a group get together, you’ll find the performance hard to believe. It’s performance plus.

Quote. Dave Rochlen. «Performance plus», Skateboarder Magazine, No.1 1964

City 00Skate days (CSKD) is a project of great scope on the world of skateboarding, raised from a vision that tries to go beyond its sporting side. I focus attention on aspects that reflect a subcultural model, very diverse moments and contexts, attitudes and signs that tell us about that experience: fashion, graffiti, gestures, local environments, lifestyles, group interaction, youth and contemporary identities. But it also opens up to other perspectives: the visibility and roles of women in the world of skateboarding, the relationship between skate and social integration based on community actions, the practice of skate in developing countries, the reinterpretation of urban culture from the expressiveness of very different local identities.

City 00Skate days (CSKD) es un proyecto fotográfico sobre el mundo del skate, planteado desde una visión que intenta ir más allá de su vertiente deportiva. Centro la atención en aspectos que reflejan un modelo subcultural, momentos y contextos muy diversos, actitudes y signos que nos hablan de esa vivencia: moda, graffiti, gestos, entornos locales, estilos de vida, interacción grupal, identidades juveniles. Pero también se abre a otras perspectivas: la visibilidad y roles de la mujer en el mundo del skate, la relación entre el skate y la integración social a partir de acciones comunitarias, la práctica del skate en países en vías de desarrollo, la reinterpretación de la cultura urbana desde la expresividad de muy diversas identidades locales.