Compared to “non-skaters”, a skateboarder tends to see the city
of Berlin with different eyes. Edges, stairs, lines, areas and other
spatial objects automatically draw our attention. You immediately
start picturing in your head what could possibly be done with a
skateboard at these special places and what not. Lines determine
the direction of thinking. And almost every day, we find ourselves
struggling with waxed lines of concrete, spending a considerable
amount of time on the cold ground, just for the sake of it. For
outsiders, it’s difficult to comprehend why we scream at concrete
edges and behave like the alpha male marking its territory. But in
fact, the street is the home of our subculture.
I tried to capture this symbiosis of skateboarding and the urban
space we all move in on 35mm. At places that are more to us than
just a simple line.
