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Common Strangers brings together the best emerging skate photographers
Always pushing — Photographer and curator Lola Paprocka on how skate and DIY culture unites her showcase of emerging photographers.
Written by: Alex King
Skate video series Parisii maps each of Paris’ twenty arrondissements
Parisii XIV: The penultimate episode — Europe's top skaters leave their mark on every neighbourhood in Paris with a killer edit in each one.
Written by: Alex King
Outspoken skater turned writer Scott Bourne on living by your own rules
No Authority But Yourself — He rejected America for Paris and gave up skateboarding to write. Scott Bourne refuses to follow the pack.
Written by: Benjamin Deberdt
Skate artist Jacob Ovgren talks about… cocks
We need to talk about sex — Hilariously explicit Polar Skateboards artist Jacob Ovgren invites the LB Project into his studio in Malmö.
Written by: Alex King
Photographer Gabe Morford captures skateboarding’s perfect moments
Ready for Anything — Documenting those that are inherently unpredictable is a skill that SF-based Gabe Morford has honed over a lifetime shooting from the hip.
Written by: Anthony Pappalardo
Nothing can keep nomadic skater Pat Moran still for long as he shreds across the USA
In The Zen Zone — Oregon-born Pat Moran follows his skateboard around the West Coast on a one-man mission of discovery.
Written by: Maxwell Klinger
Five things we learnt from Mark Gonzales' revealing Monster Children interview
Video: Longform — The most interesting man in skateboarding talks about eating cats at night, skating his son through Soho on a makeshift throne, and a period of excessive spending in Japan.
Written by: Shelley Jones
Why heavily state-controlled Shanghai is one of the world's most liberating places to skate
Charging Through China — Meet Tommy Zhao and the skate family nurturing an exciting DIY scene in the midst of Shanghai’s retro-futuristic skyscrapers.
Written by: Charlotte Middlehurst
The constant reinvention of skateboarding’s dark genius Scott Bourne
New book: Orgy Porgy: Short Stories and True Tales — Former pro-skateboarder Scott Bourne on his new chapter as a poet, novelist and father based in Paris.
Written by: Alex King
Michelle Pezel shows us how a skateshop can build community in Vancouver
Leader of the Gang — In the latest story from Levi’s® Skateboarding Special II: Stories of Independence — our annual Skateboarding collab with Levi’s® — skater, motorbiker and owner of Antisocial Michelle Pezel shares how independence is something you can only achieve as part of a community.
Written by: Rhianon Bader
