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The young skaters taking on Ethiopia’s capital

Photographer Daniel Reiter started to document Addis Ababa’s skate community during a recent trip to Ethiopia, and teamed up with a grassroots youth skateboard movement to follow the lives of 150 young people using the city’s piazzas and parking lots to practice their skills

‘Skateboarding in Ethiopia started almost a decade ago, when there were only a handful of skateboards in the whole country,’ Reiter told OkayAfrica about his series of photographs. ‘There are no skate shops – you literally can’t buy skate gear in Ethiopia, [there are] no local skate magazines and unfortunately no park that would spark the fire and give all interested kids a safe and challenging environment’ But thanks to donations and the work of a local organisation, Ethiopia Skate, Reiter says the young men and women are gradually getting better access to boards and equipment, and as a result ‘the kids are getting better and better’ too.

Reiter’s photographs will be on display as part of the exhibition EthiopiaSkate – curated by Jacob Roberts-Mensah – at London’s RichMix from 4-28 April