Jacob Sawyer at Slam City Skates interviewed me about the Elsewhere book.

On the Slam site here.

Neil Blender doesn’t speak much, so I’m very grateful he took the time to answer a few questions about himself, skateboarding, and The Heated Wheel skateboard company. Here’s what he had to say, alongside some classic shots, and some images from the archives you may not have seen before.

Up on Slam.

I DMed Tony asking if he’d be up for an interview, and he said he was. We got it pretty quickly too, and I think that says a lot about the most famous skateboarder in the world, that however busy he is can still put things off to talk about skateboarding. We spoke for a couple of hours and went pretty deep. Tony rules.

On the Slam site here.

I spoke to Corey for Slam City Skates and it might well be the longest interview you ever read. There’s a lot to talk about, and I think we covered it all.

It’s on the Slam City Skates site.

One of the best ever, and with a story as interesting as his skateboarding is stylish, I spoke to Carl about his entire time in skateboarding, and why things finished in the US—and with the industry—the way that they did. From skating kerbs in Worksop to travelling the world with the DC and back again.

Read it at Slam.

I spoke to Geoff Rowley for Free magazine about his move to the US, and the hostility and sense of alienation that came with that. Also the realisation that skating you see in magazines and videos isn’t actually the everyday stuff…

It ran in issue 36, and it’s on the Free site here.

I interviewed the RaD/Phat editor/photographer TLB for Dogpiss magazine. It ended up so big that it came out as a separate magazine.

Read the digital version here.

Mike Blabac genuinely shaped the look of skateboarding as we know it, as well as the visual identities of some of the biggest companies in it. Mad Circle, DC, Girl and Chocolate all look as cool as they do with a lot of help from Mike.

I spoke to him for North magazine and it’s online here.

I spoke to Eli about growing up in Downtown 1980s New York, skateboarding, music, graffiti and everything that led here to the creation of Zoo York skateboards, meeting Russell Simmons and creating Phat Farm, being around the Stretch & Bobbito show, making Mixtape, doing graphics, skating the Brooklyn Bridge Banks and beyond.

Read it here.

From borrowed boards on Brighton seafront to Huntington Beach and shaping one of the biggest and most important skate shoe companies ever, Sole Technology’s Don Brown has been around for most of the significant changes in modern skateboarding over the last thirty years, and it’s definitely fair to say that he had a hand in shaping a few of them.

I spoke to him, at length, for Slam City Skates.

If you have any interest in modern skateboarding, then there’s a very good chance that Sam Ashley shot some of your favourite photos. From the time of three big UK magazines all competing for your £5 every month, to these days of digital sharing, longer lenses and shorter attention spans, Sam’s been helping show the world how good UK and European skateboarding is for some twenty years now.

Interview for Slam City Skates.

Interview with filmer/director Jeremy Elkin, discussing his background filming skateboarding and making the Lo-Def, Elephant Direct, Poisonous Products and The Brodies videos and the process of making what might be the best skateboard documentary ever, All The Streets Are Silent. Originally intended as a documentary about Zoo York’s Mixtape video, there was too much to cover without making a feature-length documentary, so that’s what Jeremy did.

On the Slam City Skates site.

I spoke to 90s East Coast photographer Pete Thompson for Slam City Skates, for the launch of his outstanding ‘93 til Skateboarding book. Pete shot with Tom Penny, Sean Sheffey, Guy Mariano, Keenan Milton, Stevie Williams and just about everybody else who made stylishness in skateboarding so important.

It’s up here on the Slam City Skates site.

Interview with Skateboard! magazine editor Steve Kane, for the Slam City Skates site. Steve worked on the original 1970s Skateboard! magazine, and went on to edit the re-introduced version that appeared in 1988. He might well be the first person to have coverage doing a kickflip, but he still fell out with Mark Gonzales.

Read all about it here.

Not only is legendary lensman Tobin Yelland in the fairly unique position of having shot for each of the main US skateboard magazines—simultaneously at times—but it could reasonably be said that he worked with each one during its most pivotal era.
Skate or otherwise, Tobin’s photography captures the feel of places in time unlike anybody else has, and his ethos of shooting as much as possible has yielded some of the most memorable, iconic images in skateboarding.

He told me his story and it’s on the Slam City Skates site.

From Underworld Element to Supreme (via Shut and Zoo York), Jeff Pang’s always been about the good stuff. I asked him all about everything NYC (and beyond).

Up on Slam City Skates.

Interview with Thrasher editor Michael Burnett for North magazine. We talked about the history of Thrasher, and keeping it relevant and exciting in a changing, post-Phelps world.

On the North site here.

Interview with Lance Dawes for North magazine about starting Slap under Thrasher / High Speed, the importance of documenting everything and everywhere, style (or the lack of), the changing look of skateboarding, EMB and wheels-on-the-ground covers.

On the North site.

I spoke to Detroit-raised photographer Joe Brook about shooting for Slap and Thrasher, geographical politics in skateboarding, the progression of photography and the times, people and places that keep it exciting.

On the North site.

I spoke to Mark Suciu for North magazine, and we talked about his move to Philadelphia, France, Habitat, shoe design, college and music.

Here it is on the North site.

I spoke to Abingdon’s Techno King about progression - logical or otherwise - from Death Box, Oxford and SS20 to Flip, DJing and Warner Avenue.

Read it on the Slam City Skates site.