City 01 Skate Days, 2019. Skatepark Monte Tossal (Castillo San Fernando). Alicante. Spain. Context shapes content (Rodney Mullen). El contexto da forma al contenido

While the most overtly «political» articulations of skateboarders are to be found in campaigns around public skateparks, large numbers of skaters resist even such minimally institutionalised settings in favour of the more subversive, «anti social» thrills of urban street skating.

This leads some academic commentators, such as Iain Borden, to regard skating as a kind of critique of the routinised efficiency of the modern capitalist city, with its «zero degree architecture», although he is bound to admit that most skaters themselves are largely unaware of the political nature of their actions.

Quote. David Buckingham. «Skate perception: self-representation, identity and visual style in a youth subculture», 2009

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.