Everybody Skate: Photographer Lanna Apisukh Highlights Female and Queer Skateboarders in New Photo Project

Lanna Apisukh started her Everybody Skate photo project in 2018 to highlight the diversity of New York City’s skateboarding scene, in particular, to show off the growing numbers of female and queer skaters around the city. Now, in 2021, her skateboarder photography feels particularly relevant in a time in which the pandemic has created a resurgence of public space and forced personal re-negotiations of identity.

Having begun as a kind of underground thing, how do you feel about skateboarding growing in popularity, but also in prestige? Totally, yeah. I picked up my first skateboard in the late 90s when my brother started. First, I watched him and his friends doing tricks on our driveway as a kid. And eventually, I just learned how to ride it on my own in the driveway. But I didn't really get into it because there wasn't that many women skating or girls skating. It wasn't until college. I went to college in Seattle, and I met three or four other young women that skated.

Yeah, absolutely! I think it's definitely always a collaboration when I'm shooting with another skateboarder. When I go to the skate park, oftentimes I'll skate around a little bit to be comfortable in space and talk to people. I'll have a camera with me, have a little conversation where I start shooting with them. But it's always a collaboration. They might have like an idea for a photo; I might have an idea for a photo. And then we just make a photo.

Yeah, totally. It definitely feels like the perfect subject for photographers. Because it's a spectacle. You're in the public space for one. I mean sometimes people do feel uncomfortable or shy in front of the camera. So it's always good to ask, I don't like to shoot unless I have consent from a skateboarder. I'd rather that than like going and shooting and then running away.

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