@seutrinh Brian Lotti is a revolutionary skateboarder, painter and filmmaker who invented a series of pivotal tricks in the 90s and went pro but as quickly as he shot into the fame in the industry he suddenly departed from skateboarding. In these years Brian developed his painting which alongside his skating is what he is …
Ben Colen is a skateboarder and photographer who’s eye for unique moments and steady judgement has allowed him to capture a series of the most standout skate photos. It’s probably because Ben skated for such a long time before he started to shoot skate photography that he focuses his work so heavily on things …
Anthony Acosta is a skate photographer with next level skills on his board and behind the lens. Coming up in Cali he managed to get sponsored to skate and filmed some banging skate sections but he steadily became as obsessed with shooting skateboarding with his camera as he did with the act itself. Twenty years …
Jon Humphries is a skater and photographer from the Northwestern United States who has shot some of the best skate photos ever. Jon has the innate ability to disappear with his camera whilst hanging with some of the most interesting characters in skateboarding. His work has showcased some of the most candid and compelling skate …
Photo by Mike Blabac J. Grant Brittain has been at the forefront of skate photography since the 1970s. He was the photo editor of Transworld Skateboarding for two decades and has shot some of the best skate photos ever. We are stoked that J. Grant has joined The No Comply Network. So we had a …
Tim Dowling is a skate filmmaking legend. He was a dedicated filmer for Girl Skateboards, World Industries and Chocolate Skateboards in the 90s and he filmed the whole of Guy Mariano’s iconic Mouse Section. After capturing legendary Guy footage for Girl, Tim independently shot and produced,”Listen”, a mid-90s era-defining Southern Californian skate video that featured …
Jeremy Wray is a skater, artist and designer who has done some of the gnarliest tricks ever Do you think there’s an inherent link between skateboarding and creativity? I believe it’s all undeniably linked – at least, it used to be. So many skaters from the 1980s and 90s were also artists, designers and …
Deville Nunes is a skater, Powell TM and a photographer. Born to a lawyer father and a circus performer mother, skateboarder and photographer Deville Nunes had already lived in five countries before he started skating in his teens. All these years later, he’s not only team manager for the iconic Powell-Peralta, but also shoots …
Adam Connett is a skater who runs skate zine ISNBH. I run ‘I Should Not Be Here’, a South-London based collective of skateboarders, photographers and illustrators. Everything from board graphics through to videos is a creative process. Let alone skateboarding as a creative outlet itself. For us it was just getting a bunch of likeminded …
Pierre is a skater and photographer based in London. Skateboarding and photography are similar in the sense that you can set your own rules, pace, and engagement. What I mean by this, is that the idea of having structured success metrics for both photography and skateboarding is none existent, because personal success within these …
George is a skateboarder and photographer from London. The connection between instinctual expression and technical ability is just one really important idea in skating and photography as for the most part, you need both to create anything in both mediums. In skating, it’s technically being able to do the tricks you think of on your …
Mike is a skater and photographer based in Los Angeles I think skateboarding and photography feed off each other – skaters see photos in magazines and online and get inspiration to try tricks, skate hard, go to new places and enjoy new styles. I cannot imagine one with out the other. Sometimes it’s nice to …
Chris is a skater and photographer As with many others, skateboarding certainly influenced and continues to inform my interest in photography. It’s rather cliche but photographs are an intrinsic part of how we relate to skateboarding. It’s a relationship that synonymously thrives with context, skateboarding gives you the accessibility to some interesting locations and …
Jenna is a skater and photographer based in London. For me skateboarding and photography have always has gone hand in hand. I started photographing friends down at Long Live Southbank in the late ‘90’s ( which was also around the same time I started skating) and I have never really stopped. I have always …
Fred Mortagne is a filmer and photographer. It’s skateboarding that developed my creative side, so they are definitely totally linked up. I truly think it is something that needs to be promoted. Being creative is something important in life. I don’t think our school systems are really trying to help the kids being creative. It …
Pani is a skater and photographer based in London. Skateboarding does not inspire my photography, It’s more just something I do to take my mind off photography if that makes sense? Photography is my job you know so I use skating more of an escape. Little mid-week holidays. Ed Templeton inspired me to take pictures …
Joe is a skateboarder and photographer from London. I guess skateboarding and my approach to taking photos are pretty similar. Both take a whole lot of trial and error. Every time I shoot I’m learning and thinking about new ways to do things. As cliche as it sounds, skateboarding as a whole inspires me. I …
Tom is a skater and artist from Deptford, South East London. Well I’m not the first to say this, but I feel that there are distinct similarities between street photography and street skating. If you go out to shoot without a real plan the formula is really similar to looking for skate spots, you keep …
Tracy is a visual artist who documents skate culture. My creative process is based on having as much fun as humanly possible. The GET STUFFED! pizza zine was exactly that. I had about 4 years’ worth of photos at home and I knew I wanted to make a zine with them. The images were from …
Daryl is a skater and DJ sponsored by Vans Skateboarding is an expressive and creative art form in itself, so naturally the relationship it shares with other creative outlets like art and music are similar. They vibrate on a mutual level. Skateboarding is my first love and its taught me how to channel my own …
Danny is a skater and photographer from Bournemouth “Skateboarding and documenting the act itself go hand in hand. To me, there is nothing better than being able to freeze time, rewind and then relive the moment! I surround myself in skateboarding all day every day so I guess it’s all pretty inspiring to me. It …
Jim is a skateboarder and filmer-photographer Skateboarding, photography and film are similar in a lot of ways. Each person involved has their own style and always have to bring creativity to any given situation. This is probably why they all work so well together, as a filmer you can highlight the skating or as a …
Lewis is a skateboarder and photographer from Liverpool, England. I believe having a creative process in your life is essential, skateboarders are lucky cos’ even though skating itself is super creative most skaters have another artistic direction as well. Looking at skating through a lens makes it far more interesting I think, constantly searching for …
Jerome is a pro skater and photographer. “I really feel that skateboarding and photography, although, obviously incredibly different, share heaps of similarities. I guess the most fundamental connection between the two is creative vision. In both you’re always constantly searching for that one image, or spot, or that one line. or sequence that looks and …
Tom is a skateboarder and photographer. I don’t know why visual arts have such a great tie with skateboarding – I mean, many have commented on the natural creativity that comes with skateboarding; creativity in terms of movement, style and adaptability. Skateboarding is at times as intricate and elegant as any form of dance, yet …
Keith is a skater and photographer based in Vancouver, Canada. My father is a great artist so I had a really creative upbringing and skateboarding and photography obviously played a major role in my life from an early age and I’m so grateful my parents supported my decisions. There’s creativity in every aspect of skateboarding, …
Jonnie is a skateboarder and photographer based in London. I think the connection between skateboarding, photography and film is harmonious. Growing up skateboarding, I think there is the natural urge to record what you’re doing and that ultimately develops and becomes more creative and then sometimes becomes a career. That’s pretty much how things developed …
What’s your full name, where did you grow up and where do you reside now? Alexander Waldmeyer, Northeast suburbs of Melbourne, Australia and Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire, England How did you develop your visual style behind a lens? I am quite influenced by skateboarding photography from the 90’s and early 00’s. I also love finding a composition …
Grant is a skater and photographer based in London. If it wasn’t for skateboarding, I probably wouldn’t be doing any of the things that I do right now. Becoming a photographer was simply a byproduct of me being a skateboarder and spending time in the streets and seeing things that needed to be documented. I …
Rob shoots photos, skates and runs Eastern Skate Mag I’m a skateboarder first and foremost but I’m also a photographer and I film sometimes. I run a skate mag called Eastern. I also work a 9-5 for an engineering company who make recovery trucks. Skateboarding was probably one of the main reasons I got into …
Leo is a skater and a prolific UK skate photographer I’ve ridden a skateboard since about the age of 10 years old. I got my first camera at aged 7 and have enjoyed photography ever since. I never really took it that seriously until I started to document my friends riding skateboards. This was around …
James Harris is a skater and filmer from Bristol. Most people know me as a skateboard videographer, which is something I’m extremely passionate about. I’ve worked on many skateboard company videos and a few independent projects. My day job consists of creating cancer and science based videos.These are used in a non-biased way to educate …
Sophia is a photographer who works at CERN in Geneva. When I shot photographs for LLSB I met a bunch of creative people and skateboarding really pushed my photography. There’s a strong relationship between skateboarding and photography.The best part of photographing skaters is being able to share the photos with them and seeing their reaction. …
Joel is a skateboarder and photographer based in Berlin. My initial intrigue in photography was a direct result of skateboarding and specifically seeing Leo Sharp shooting at the MK Buszy when I was a kid and soon after seeing the resulting photo on the cover of Sidewalk Magazine. I was completely blown away. I was …
Rogie is a pro skater and photographer-filmmaker I’m a photographer and filmmaker, mostly working in the documentary world at the moment, and I’m also pro for Heroin Skateboards when my stupid chalk knees permit. I think skateboarding, photography and film are inseparable. Skateboarding is completely visual, whether in real life or after the matter – …
Jim is a skater and filmer from Manchester. “For me, skateboarding is intrinsically linked with the need to document the act itself. I got into filming skateboarding because as a kid the ‘filmer guy’ in my crew gave it up, but I felt strongly that somebody needed to be capturing all of the outrageous shit …
