Les portraits dans Skaters obligent le sujet, le photographe et le spectateur à ralentir. Ces images, créées avec du collodion sur plaque humide, offrent un aperçu honnête du noyau des skateurs : pensif, dur, ludique, anxieux, distrait et innocent. Même les clichés de parcs de skate apparemment vides regorgent en fait d’énergie et de mouvement immenses, mais les skaters se déplacent trop rapidement pour être capturés avec de longues expositions.
The portraits in Skaters compel the subject, the photographer, and the viewer to slow down. These images, created with wet plate collodion, offer an honest glimpse into the skateboarders’ core being: pensive, tough, playful, anxious, distracted, and innocent. Even the plates of seemingly empty skate parks are in fact teeming with immense energy and motion, yet the skaters are moving too quickly to be captured with long exposures.
Jenny Sampson earned a BA in Psychobiology at Pitzer College and has since dedicated her time to her photographic endeavors: wet plate collodion, traditional black and white photography, and commissioned portraits.
Bret Anthony Johnston is an established writer, author, skateboarder, and Director of Creative Writing at Harvard University.
