Skatehive's Skateboarding Photography Contest, by @cinnartmon
Heyo everyone! How are you doing?
Today is the last day to submit our entries and the reason why I took so long to post mine is because I entered the rabbit hole of my Files hahaha
It's really hard to decide which picture to post, since I'm both a photographer and a skateboarder, so I decided on posting my fav 4 pics of myself and taken by me.
Starting with myself, then...
FS Ollie, SoMa Mini - 2014
This was the first picture of myself taken by one of my best friends, André Paiva , it was the beginning of a long-term friendship.
The funny thing is that we studied at the same school but didn't talk much until skateboarding bring us together. From there on, we were always on sessions together and later, he would also teach me to surf. Thanks, Deco.
BS Crooked, at 13, the best DIY spot ever - 2014
This spot was located at Rua 13 de Maio, named after the date of slavery abolition in Brazil. We called it just by '13' and there I lived most of my childhood skateboarding memories. I even tattooed it on my leg, as stated below.
I even wrote a text about it at Medium, but this one is in Portuguese. I wrote about my point of view in racism, structurally and locally.
Fakie Heelflip, at Espaço XV - 2015
Back in 2015 my brother and a friend of his started a brand named Pólen, a business modeled in one-for-one. We used to sell hoodies and for each sold, we donated another one to charity.
Because of that we were invited to an event in Rio and they did a game of skate, where I landed this fakie heelflip. The picture was taken by João, from Amerindios, a crew from Rio/Petrópolis.
P.S.: Picture the joint in the top left hand corner, I love this composition because back then I was starting to smoke hahaha
Fakie Crooked, at SoMa Mini - 2015
This picture is beautiful.
Also taken by my friend André 'Deco', this day was just perfect. SoMa has set up the miniramp in the farm of a friend of ours to celebrate its anniversary at that year, full of meat (Brazilian churrasco), beer, skate and weed.
I can't skate miniramps properly, but fakie crooks it's the one I can do in most of the spots so... hahaha
Varial Flip, Praça Roosevelt - 2019
My latest register on skateboarding, took by my current girlfriend. She is also a photographer, with an excellent eye for nice frameworks.
Thanks for the register and for everything you proportioned me later on, both in skateboarding and photography.
This Varial Flip I landed at Praça Roosevelt, another known spot but this time in São Paulo - you probably saw videos from there. This night we were fucking drunk, just shredding around and having fun, and at some point I started skating and she shot it without me even knowing it! You're the best, Dani <3
Now, let's go to the one taken by me...
FS Noseslide, Praça XV, by Thiago Gorgon - 2019
The best session I had last year, at Praça XV, the famous skate spot in Rio de Janeiro.
I wasn't really close to Gorgon, but we knew each other from some sessions here in Petrópolis, where he's friends with my current boss at SoMa - the local skateshop. He called me by morning to tell me he has just arrived in town, so I just set everything up to meet him and Edson 'Ovo', and we ended up with a great video: RJ DAYZZ.
And talking about Ovo...
BS Crooked, at Porto Maravilha, by Edson 'Ovo' - 2019
One of the most beautiful Crooked grinds I've seen, really well executed and grinding all the way in a concrete ledge. I felt a lot emotive while shooting it, laying on the floor to get the best angle. I ended more than happy with the result!
FS Big Sping, Center of Rio, by @xvlad - 2019
Our dearest Vlad with a beautiful FS Big Spin at the event I LOVE XV. He didn't land it but I liked the picture so let it be hahahah
EDIT: He actually landed it but I was too high to remember, sorry guys! You can check it in the comment section of the post on LBRY, here.
I Love XV is an event where the locals celebrate the allowance by the mayor to skate at Praça XV, one of the most famous skate spots at Rio. You can check their work here.
Thank to everyone who has read up to here.
You can check more of my photography work on Instagram, soon I'll migrate to another platform.
My videos and music you can check here, on Hive, on LBRY and also on my personal profile, on Instagram.
See ya!