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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.

  • Photography
  • 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.

  • Culture
  • 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.

  • Skate
  • 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.

  • Skate
  • 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.

  • Skate
  • 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.

  • Skate
  • 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.

  • Art
  • 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.

  • Skate
  • 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.

  • Print
  • 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.

  • Skate
  • Rhianon Bader

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