September 20, 2016 |
Suffice to say, none of the Ten Towers boys are proficient skateboarders. The extent of our experience extends to an 8-year-old Will Johns, our Junior Fashion Editor, once being taken the piss out of for wearing skate clothes when he didn’t, in fact, actually skate. By a ten-year-old named Jamie. Yep, fascinating. Luckily Dan Boulton is a far more proficient skateboarder, and even more proficient photographer, who, in his latest monograph documents South Bank skate culture from 2005-2015. Entitled No Turning Back, Southbank 20015 – 2015, the blurb tells us that the book “captures possibly the last uniquely British rebellious phase of skateboarding as an adopted subculture, before its dress code and culture became as homogenised as the gentrification of its Thames-side location”. Alongside the images, there is also an essay by KIDS star and Larry Clark protege Leo Fitzpatrick, himself a skateboarder in his youth and calling London home as a teenager. “What Dan Boulton has captured in these photos are the moments between the tricks that are just as important for many young teenagers. More happens in such a condensed span of time when you’re a teenager than any other time in your life that it’s hard to remember all the good times you had,” he writes in the essay. The book will be launched on Thursday 22nd September from 6-8pm at The Photographer’s Gallery, where you will be able to purchase one of the 1000 copies. There will also, or so we are told, be free alcohol. So, well, enough said.
No Turning Back, Southbank 2005 – 2016 by Dan Boulton, Essay by Leo Fitzpatrick is published by Chinagraph
