Skate Nostalgia & more

A look back at some old photos I've shot.

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@getzhabitat down & up at City Hall | 2004' | #Philly #geeinstaclips #sequencesaturday RIP City Hall

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Shooting waves #ob2 #nj

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Promo shoot with @getzhabitat a few years back. #fbf

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Pool fun from last year ...

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Kyle Frederick, early 2008'. An old photo I always liked.

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Goodbye crazy beard. 82+ days.

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Stevie Williams & Ricky Oyola 1994'

Reading about the new Love Park makeover for 2012, I could only think back to my first time there for the SubZero contest in late 94'. Hundreds of skaters, a few ramps and a DJ were in full effect. Times sure have changed!

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Andrew Reynolds 2004'

While on an Emerica trip we stopped off at this insane spot where Heath 180'd and kickflipped it in the teams previous video. Andrew wasted no time and blasted off this 180 flip in a few tries. I had to stand on a truck to shoot this in order to see the bank and gap. You can basically get an idea of how high Andrew is by looking at Jon Miner filming up front. I'm guessing 8 feet.

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Anthony Pappalardo 2001'

This photo shoot was a mission. A few days prior the runway and landing were buried under snow and ice. With a Lakai deadline not far away, I managed to buy around 10-15 bags of rock salt to clear it out. A few days later Anthony nailed a bunch of perfect landings to help create this image. 

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Chad Muska: Zurich, Switzerland June 2001

Shot this during the Circa European tour in the beginning of summer 2001. Muska and JT killed this spot. If anyone has a good condition scan of this cover, please email it over to me at [email protected] ... I just can't seem to find another copy of this issue right now.

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Rob Dyrdek & the 30mm fisheye:

This was my first photo taken with the infamous 30mm Hasselblad Fisheye (f/3.5 CFi Zeiss F-Distagon Lens). I believe during this time Atiba was the only one shooting with it in the skate industry. Regardless, the day I picked it up (9/2000'), Rob Dyrdek was in town and needed to shoot an ad. So soon enough we headed to North Philly and put it to the test. Once I got the negatives back I was obviously stoked on the results and it became my main lens of choice for fisheye shots.

By winter 2006' I had a new digital camera and was back shooting with the classic Canon 15mm lens. The Hasselblad fisheye was collecting dust so I ended up selling it to another skate photographer. Maybe a year later I found out that Jamie Thomas acquired it for their company's photographer and that it got stolen. Looking back at older photos I tend to miss shooting film and sometimes contemplate on getting another Hasselblad. Maybe one day I'll cross paths with the 30mm Distagon lens again.

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Bob Puleo 1998'

I accidentally stumbled on this spot while visiting my Grandparents. During this time Bob Puleo and I were working on a possible interview and I knew this spot was right up his alley. One of my long lost favorites out of the archives.

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Fred Gall 1996'. Located at the old 'Metal' warehouse in North Philly. 

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North Philly sometime in 98'. Probably one of my favorite Serje pic's we've shot over the years. 

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Quim Cardona 97'

Anyone remember WARP magazine? Here's a pull out spread I shot of Quim for an interview back in 1997'.

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Woodward Skate Camp 1996'. I was bleeding internally while I shot this 2 page spread for a Brian Howard interview. An hour prior I belly flopped into a pool and lacerated my spleen. At the time I didn't know this and kept shooting for the interview. Not long after this photo was taken I started to pass out and got rushed to the ER. After I got my MRI tests done, I has 2 pints of blood internally bleeding into my stomach. Not rad!

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Chris Cole, 12/10/2006. The first and only backside 360 down the infamous Love Park gap. Chris went on to do a few more the following week only to be shot with a long lens. (Click photo for larger image)