no skateboarding – Mathias Fennetaux

This is the story of a French skater and photographer who one day got it into his head to meet and make portraits of all the skateboarders that had influenced him and his generation. This is the story of over a decade of trips to the US to complete the project. The story of seventy encounters with men who shaped modern skateboarding in the 90’s; that is during the period when the sport, no longer confined to a small clique of aficionados, barged into youth culture influencing its aesthetics, its music, its fashion and its imagery. It is the story of seventy photos taken with the same square-format camera as an exercise in style on the portrait genre; seventy sittings that all followed the same basic principles and resulted in as many different portraits.

Mathias Fennetaux grew up in Paris in the 80’s. He has been an independent photographer for over 20 years. His work, which centers on the skate/surf culture, its lifestyle and its fashion, has been deeply influential in shaping the visual culture of the French and European scenes. Splitting his time between personal art projects and advertising campaigns for all the major board sports companies, he lives and works in Biarritz, France.

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