1979年、Grant Brittain はルームメイトからキヤノンのカメラを借りてスケートボーダーを被写体に写真を撮影し始めて以来、2013年現在に至るまで34年もの間、スケートボーダーを撮影してきました。

1983年にTransworld Skateboarding magazineが発刊されてから20年に渡って、Photo Editorとして雑誌の軸となって写真を撮り続けた。

世界で一番スケートボーダーを撮影した男と言っても過言ではないGrant Brittainは生きる伝説であり、後に続くスケートボードフォトグラファーやスノーボードフォトグラファーに大きな影響を与えた。

2003年からはThe Skateboard MagのPhoto Editorとして今日に至るまで活躍している。

彼が80年代、90年代に撮影した写真の中から印象的な作品を選び、一冊のジンにした。

その名も「Grant Brittain ’80/90′ Zine」

30年間にわたりユースカルチャーとスケートボードコミュニティーのど真ん中にいた彼だから撮れた写真の数々。

その中でも激動の時代とされる80年、90年代に撮られた写真を今の目で見た時に一体僕らは何を感じるのだろうか。

Grant Brittain ’80/90′ Zine by Arkitip

48P/$10.00

While working at the Del Mar Skateboard Ranch in 1979 selling Cokes, Twinkies and miniature golf, J. Grant Brittain borrowed his roommate’s Canon and began what would become a 34 year-long affair with skateboarding, cameras and magazines. He helped found Transworld Skateboarding magazine in 1983 and as the Photo Editor for 20 years, helped build it into the top selling skateboarding mag. He has captured the best skateboarders of the last three decades in photos that have become classics. He has also taught some of the best skate photographers past and present and has helped them develop their own work. Grant felt like he was in a well worn rut and has moved on and helped start another magazine in 2003, The Skateboard Mag where he resides to this day.

His “off hours” are consumed by a search for calmer and more serene subjects. Still lakes at night and solitary desert forms are among the subjects of his diverse personal work. His abstracts, portraits, landscapes and travel images seem to draw from the opposite energy of his action shots. Few photographers have pursued so wide a range of subjects and styles. But few individuals find themselves so central to such an active community, where one’s perspective is just a notch askew of the rest, and where movement and progression is the norm. Grant Brittain’s body of work reflects his deep involvement in an emerging youth culture, as well as his escape from it.

（arkitip）