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Part memoir, part document of the DIY, punk-infused subculture of
skateboarding as it came of age in the 1990s and early 2000s, Ed
Templeton’s Wires Crossed pulses with the raw, combustive energy
of Templeton’s image-making from the last twenty-plus years.
Illustrated by photographs, collages, texts, maps, and other
ephemera from Templeton’s journals, Wires Crossed offers an
insider’s look at a subculture in the making and reflects the
unique aesthetic stamp that sprang from the skate world he helped
create. Templeton occupies the rare position of having been a
professional skateboarder, a two-time World Skateboarding champion,
as well as a photographer and artist working within the skateboard
community as it gained increasing cultural currency in the 1990s
and beyond. His work first gained recognition as part of the
Beautiful Losers collective loosely gathered around Aaron Rose’s
Alleged Gallery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. This work, much
of it previously unpublished and unseen, explores Templeton’s own
journey as an image maker, as well as the lives of professional
skateboarders as they spent long hours crisscrossing the world on
tour, reveling in their newfound status as rock star–like figures
and the eternal search for new terrain to skate. Interviews between
Templeton and fellow pro-skaters and friends add compelling detail
about the pressures and pleasures of life on the road, and what
it’s like to obsessively pursue an art form—whether on their
decks or behind the camera.
At the age of twenty-nine, photographer Thomas Sweertvaegher spends
most of his life on the road with friends, indulging his dual
passions of photography and skating. Years of travelling the world
together - always on the move and often carrying nothing more than
a skateboard - have yielded the poignant photographs collected in
this volume, where the skateboard remains a constant symbol of
freedom, an extension of their identities and the mark of their
strong friendship. Rolling on the margins of society, exploring the
limits of life and his own young adulthood, Sweertvaegher captures
whatever is happening around him during his travels. His shots take
the reader on a journey, showing the highs and lows, bruises and
stitches of skating and street life, and ultimately celebrating the
beauty such a life can bring. While it captures Sweertvaegher's
odyssey from a highly personal perspective, The Journal of a
Skateboarder is at the same time a visual documentary of the
skating world, and features key figures such as Axel Cruysberghs,
Arto Saari, Dylan Rieder and Rodney Mullen.
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