City 01 Skate Days, 2018. Muchamiel Skatepark. Muchamiel. Alicante. Spain. I lack everything but you

Individual expression, creativity and authenticity are highly valued qualities within skateboarding and praised within the skateboard industry. Further, I. Borden explains that the currency within skateboarding is your moves and how you gracefully you can communicate them. The value of this currency is higher if you do a move on something that has not been skated before or if the trick is made in a new way, with better style. Here he points out that aesthetics come in to play in more ways than just the act of skating: the setting and filming is important to communicate authenticity and make the viewer inspired.

Quote. Fredrik Angner. «Skateboard urbanism. An exploration of skateboarding as an integrated part of public space», 2017.

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.