City 01 Skate Days, 2019. Skatepark Monte Tossal (Castillo San Fernando). Alicante. Spain. Two skaters & Three skateboards

In the study of Beal and Weidman, the authors were able to identify two core values that support the skateboarding culture. The first one was labeled as «Participant control», and relates to the small level of formality that the skateboarding culture reflects. This enables a feeling of freedom, making it possible to express themselves and to embrace skateboarding as being part of their identity.

The second value relates to skateboarding being embraced as a noncompetitive activity. It is this last value that sets skateboarding apart from mainstream sports, because even in the professional skateboarding sphere, riders demonstrate signs of passion and happiness, and although it is an individualistic sport, skateboarders support each other when for instance someone lands a trick.

Quote. Paulo Miguel Pereira Baumhammer. «Four wheels and one board: studying the skateboard tribe and thei loyalty towards skateboard brands», 2013

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.