City 01 Skate Days, 2015. Skatepark Monte Tossal (Castillo San Fernando). Alicante. Spain. Ride till the end

The spatial practice developed by the skater collective represents a practice apart from the traditional struggles for the right to the city. Skateboarding takes the streets and squares of the city, adapting, appropriating them without having to claim them. Skateboarding does not build a discourse of vindication. When they are thrown out of a space they look for another one where they can skate. They represent new ways of appealing the right to the city.

Skaters proclaim an alternative urban experience, await their recognition and their right to use the urban space as more than a space for commercial relations, for communication between one point and another in the city. Through their spatial practices they achieve to mark a collective distinction that responds to their recreational and identity needs at the same time. And they configure a geography of meeting points and practice, places that are sources of meaning and social capital.

Quote. Xavier Camino Vallhonrat. «Estudio cultural del skateboarding en Barcelona», 2012

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.