This project focuses on how I have used portrait photography as a means to document the sub-culture of skateboarding. These images illustrate a collective of iderviduals that strongly believes in it's identity, even tho it is not appreciated or even understood by society at large. As "Skateboarders create their own subculture: a social world in which self-identifying values and appearances confront conventional codes of behaviour", it is a culture that has remained intact from society at large.
By covering the models main focus of identification with their skateboards, I am illustrating their collective identity. This denial of identification alludes to how the photographic portrait creates an identity through generalising subjects into sub sections of society. This generalisation is constructed by photographer and performed by the subject, in my case a willing presentation.
